I'm considering selling my HTC Sensation XE for a Sony Xperia S. I just want a change and quite like the look of the XS. I'm bored of HTC Sense! Anyone think it's a good idea? Bad idea? Maybe someone in the UK wants to make a swap (outside of XDA of course).
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Yes, it's worth. It's a good idea.
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Trade in at CeX perhaps? (If there's one near you) Might cost you a few quid but shouldn't be more than £20-30 from my experience with them. XS is a lot nicer than Sensation imo.
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Not sure I'd get much from cex plus don't trust buying from them!
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No! Don't do it until you want a phone with incredible amount of bugs which lags all the time.
Try Samsung or Nexus brand. But never, never buy Xperia S.
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No bugs? Maybe you aren't using your phone too much...
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Everyday. I'm using XZX2 and I don't see bugs. I'm using my phone so much so I will see this bugs. So far no lags and no bugs. Everything works perfect like my every phone from Sony.
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Let's try and keep things polite and on-topic here please guys...
Even I am confused between xs and s2 or some other better in range
Seems most are quite happy with Xs as nobody offering to swap ha ha.
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Good idea but not for now
It'll be good when Sony releases jelly bean for Xperia s cuz it'll be like buying Xperia z (almost).
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I am really happy with my XS.
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SXS has the same outdated SoC than the Sensation. I would not buy.
If you're just bored with Sense you should try aosp custom roms or chance launcher. Nova launcher is my choice.
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mikbe said:
SXS has the same outdated SoC than the Sensation. I would not buy.
If you're just bored with Sense you should try aosp custom roms or chance launcher. Nova launcher is my choice.
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I have aosp on now and a custom launcher. However no JB update for Sensation means aosp has bugs too difficult to fix. The reason to swap to Xs would be for official JB update I'd still use an aosp rom though.
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Err... i wouldn't go with Sony for the offcial updates... They really suck with it (or Qualcomm, blame whoever you want), the only thing why i love my XS is for the looks of it, and the UI... Yes, i'm a shallow person xD
I would suggest to wait for the sp... Nearly same price range with a newer chipset
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I actually had HTC sensation before buying my new Xperia S. The only better thing I can say about XS is battery life. Htc with sense drains battery badly. There are some aosp roms and some kernels which gives really good performance and battery life. But not close to XS with cm10 based roms. I get More then a day's usage on my XS with cm10 and nova kernel.
But I personally loved my sensation. Way better build quality, expandable storage & amazing roms.
I feel XS 12mp camera is average. My pics captured with sensation were as good as XS with cyber shot mod. Doesn't really makes a big difference. I actually love the sense camera. Again way better then Sony cyber shot or stock camera app. But again it's a personal choice.
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I would gladly trade my Xperia Acro S for anything HTC. Well, not really anything but sensation is OK. God I hate my Xperia. I hate flashing it, roms separate from kernels, small smount of roms, no miui 5 etc... God why did I buy this stupid phone!
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I would gladly trade my Xperia Acro S for anything HTC. Well, not really anything but sensation is OK. God I hate my Xperia. I hate flashing it, roms separate from kernels, small smount of roms, no miui 5 etc... God why did I buy this stupid phone!
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If you want mium 5 or your familiar custom rom,why don't you port it yourself
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just waiting for official JB, and then, finding a custom rom with sense 5 may be good choice
I had a Sensation and was actually very happy with it with CM10.1. I thought I couldn't live without Sense, but then I rooted and tried CM and didn't miss it at all. Sensation owners are really spoiled by the excellent dev support and the number of ROMs.
I was also considering getting an Acro S, partly due to the low prices, and because I had a huge itch to get something new and better. In the end I didn't because I decided that it wouldn't have been enough of an upgrade and I would have missed all of the ROMs.
My itch to get a new phone didn't go away so I bought a Nexus 4. I've had it for a few days now, but I still miss my Sensation, which goes to show just how good the Sensation is with a custom ROM - Excellent build quality, Android 4.2.2, excellent battery life (with Anker battery), good camera, pretty fast... I would keep the Sensation
-Mark.
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Same question as in the title, do you prefer to have sense or prefer to get rid? I love sense 4 but do think the amount of ram it uses is a bit on the heavy side...
I'm currently undecided.
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Daley87 said:
Same question as in the title, do you prefer to have sense or prefer to get rid? I love sense 4 but do think the amount of ram it uses is a bit on the heavy side...
I'm currently undecided.
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i like sense..beautiful UI and just plain better than TW. but still if i see a AOKP rom or cm9 fully stable and working i will be making the jump. cause nothing beats pure google rom at the end of the day. both have their good and bad points. plus if you still like sense you can reduce the ram size it eats up by using rom cleaner
I prefer a vanilla experience, but I'm keeping a sense based ROM on my HOX until I can find a camera app that comes close to the greatness of the sense 4 camera and takes advantage of the hardware.
CM9 on my HOX was fast and snappy, but I don't care for the camera.
I did a bit of DE-Sensing on my own with Titanium by freezing a lot of HTC stuff; basically anything with the weird Sense in it. Greatly improved multitasking, but still not as well as my Nexus.
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I prefer a vanilla experience, but I'm keeping a sense based ROM on my HOX until I can find a camera app that comes close to the greatness of the sense 4 camera and takes advantage of the hardware.
CM9 on my HOX was fast and snappy, but I don't care for the camera.
I did a bit of DE-Sensing on my own with Titanium by freezing a lot of HTC stuff; basically anything with the weird Sense in it. Greatly improved multitasking, but still not as well as my Nexus.
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there is a thread now as well that gives you what apps to freeze or disable as well
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there is a thread now as well that gives you what apps to freeze or disable as well
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Link?
I also feel the same as one of the above guys, until either the sense camera could be ported or something came close then i just can't make the jump to CM9
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I also feel the same as one of the above guys, until either the sense camera could be ported or something came close then i just can't make the jump to CM9
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1681729
there you go mate
Guys, I bought a HOX after owning a Samsung Captivate and then a Galaxy S2, so I considered myself a self proclaimed Samsung fanboi. I made the jump because I wanted to taste another brand and I've liked HTC since the Windows Mobile days.
Regarding Sense 4 let me tell you, compared to TW it is simply fantastic. It is so well designed, elegant, simple, love the lockscreen customizations.
You all are correct, the camera app on HOX is that good that I am not leaving sense until something better comes along. I am thinking of installing a Sense based ROM but I am hesitant as I am enjoying the stock experience so much (for now).
For me Sense gets old and ugly pretty quick. It's not worth the memory + cpu resources it consumes :/
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For me Sense gets old and ugly pretty quick. It's not worth the memory + cpu resources it consumes :/
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I agree it is a resource hog, but I think it looks better then most.
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first of all, thank you all for your daily hard work on the DZ. I check it every day and it is wonderful what you do. I love my DZ and will stick with it for a longer time. :victory:
but sry guys, if I look at my perfectly working MIUI 2.3.7 and all this threads reg. ICS "tries" there is not one release without problems. I try every release but nothing is like the old OSs. I need it working perfectly for a professional daily use.
Slowly I think the DZ is so old that there is no chance of an ICS working like MIUI or CM7 or so on this phone or do you think there is any chance to get it working perfectly? it is possible to correct the driver problems without any emulation or "ways that it works somehow"?
one of your biggest fans, Felix
Hi, i don't think that HTC will provide an offical update to ICS for the old Vison. But i think that the devs will get the drivers in future ready for daily use. Stop waiting for a final release. The Vision was always an perfect balanced smartphone between speed and user friendly daily driver. I also testet some ICS versions but the best is a good old CM7. Nothing works so perfect. Did you missed anything for daily use? ICS is only a dev gimmic for those people who are bored of a perfect functionally smartphone. Enjoy your DZ and smile on people who whats always new version that are not testet and optimized like CM7.
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Hi, i don't think that HTC will provide an offical update to ICS for the old Vison. But i think that the devs will get the drivers in future ready for daily use. Stop waiting for a final release. The Vision was always an perfect balanced smartphone between speed and user friendly daily driver. I also testet some ICS versions but the best is a good old CM7. Nothing works so perfect. Did you missed anything for daily use? ICS is only a dev gimmic for those people who are bored of a perfect functionally smartphone. Enjoy your DZ and smile on people who whats always new version that are not testet and optimized like CM7.
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absolutely right, I thought so, too. :good: it is ok and I love my phone, it is still great. but I love many features from ICS, unfortunately I have to buy a new one sometimes. I want to stick with a hardware keyboard and manufacturers slowly distance from this solution. Problems for daily use? e.g. the cam emulation is simply crappy, pic qual. is compared to the real hardware, the ICS OS emulation slows down after a while, music player apollo is crap in my opinion (CM9) and so much other stuff. but it's ok, I will possibly keep the DZ with working OS for professional use and buy a SG3 or so to play around with ICS.
Thanks for you reply and enjoy your device too!
I have also an One X, but nothing's like the best smartphone ever built --> the HTC DZ. At the and i gave my One X to my Wife and i'm still back to my old DZ. No other smartphone is so unbreakable like the DZ, i really dropped it often on the floor. I'll give you a tipp: use your DZ until it's broken and save your money for future smartphones, there's today nothing to buy like the DZ. The smartphone Coops are so busy with patents that they have no time to built new smartphones like the DZ ;-)
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And don't buy a sg3 it have a realy bad case quality, my best friend broke it in 3 days, only one drop on the floor.
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ch33f said:
And don't buy a sg3 it have a realy bad case quality, my best friend broke it in 3 days, only one drop on the floor.
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good to know! because sg3 would have been my first choice but I hold it once in my hands and the case is really cheap plastic...ur right, nothing is like the DZ, its fast, good case and I love my keyboard...hopefully the vendors will not drop the idea of a HW keyboard forever! thanks buddy! :laugh:
i'll wait for a new robust smartphone with a hw keyboard.
I think it's the best opinion.
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I have also an One X, but nothing's like the best smartphone ever built --> the HTC DZ. At the and i gave my One X to my Wife and i'm still back to my old DZ. No other smartphone is so unbreakable like the DZ, i really dropped it often on the floor. I'll give you a tipp: use your DZ until it's broken and save your money for future smartphones, there's today nothing to buy like the DZ. The smartphone Coops are so busy with patents that they have no time to built new smartphones like the DZ ;-)
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Please, I dropped my One X a lot of times, and it ended with one, VERY small scratch on the screen. One X can handle drops on the floor etc.
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Yes thats what i mean it's HTC but there is still the HW keyboard missing ;-)
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I'm using EliteMod ICS at the moment (before changing to ics i was using cm7) and it is running very smooth! I got no problem with it and everything is working! Camera, wifi etc.
Imho the DZ is still one of the best smartphones!
A few weeks ago I was thinking about buying a new smartphone but with ICS theres no sense of doing that!
I love it..again
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I'm using EliteMod ICS at the moment (before changing to ics i was using cm7) and it is running very smooth! I got no problem with it and everything is working! Camera, wifi etc.
Imho the DZ is still one of the best smartphones!
A few weeks ago I was thinking about buying a new smartphone but with ICS theres no sense of doing that!
I love it..again
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Same with same symptoms. though I wouldn't say camera is "working" yes you can take pictures and videos, but it will force close if you use either Smiley Effect or Time Lapse, but least you'd already know what will close it.
I think CM9 RC1 runs pretty damn stable. My only gripes are occasional GPS hiccups and less battery life. Also you can't record video but I never really cared about that feature much since the camera sucks anyways.
HI all,
i think about buying a Desire HD, now i have a HD2, and it is laggy even for daily use with sense ROMs,also HD2 is no more powerful for playing some games(i dont play very much)
so buying a DHD is a good idea?
does DHD lags with sense ROMs(sense 4& 3.5)?
i choose DHD because i dont have alot of money
thank you in advance
I say DHD is a great choice. Once Virtuous r done with their Rom it will all be smooth. Great Camera on this thing. A big screen. Overall an amazing phone. Bit if you have the budget go for the One S, otherwise DHD is great !
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A good choice.. i have tried both sense 3.5 and 4 roms no lag.. but it also depends on how heavy te apps you run are.. as sense roms as such a pretty heavy.
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Maybe it's better to save up for something better, you really won't get such a big upgrade with a DHD over HD2...
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In fact,there are a lot of sense roms for dhd including sense4.0 rom,but sense4.0 rom is not so perfect.
I think you can choose Sensation,you don't need to add too much money and it will bring you a better fell.If you do not have enough money, you can choose from Desire HD,Desire S and Incridible S.if i were you,i will buy sensation,because there is official CM9 for sensation
thank you to all replies,
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In fact,there are a lot of sense roms for dhd including sense4.0 rom,but sense4.0 rom is not so perfect.
I think you can choose Sensation,you don't need to add too much money and it will bring you a better fell.If you do not have enough money, you can choose from Desire HD,Desire S and Incridible S.if i were you,i will buy sensation,because there is official CM9 for sensation
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i think you have right,i will buy a sensation, i found one with the same price of DHD
hamzawi said:
thank you to all replies,
i think you have right,i will buy a sensation, i found one with the same price of DHD
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Good Choice Buddy :good:
So I'm upgrading to HTC One X+ and painfully selling my arc S (white, 32GB).
The person I sold the phone to (I'll deliver it on next monday) is a very basic user. Almost ignorant. The important things are: have good battery life and no bugs.
It's not important to have a lot of resourses or a highly customizable enviroment, just something stable.
Do you guys think I should downgrade to stock rom? I don't think so...
Should I downgrade to a good GB rom? Maybe...
What do you guys think?
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Do you guys think I should downgrade to stock rom? I don't think so...
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I do.
iscream rom r xperia ultimate HD will do just fine, way more faster n stable
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Arconium 8.2 GB with Doomlord's Advanced Stock Kernel. Smooth+Stable+Great battery life.
I just sold mine and flashed stock ICS. Either do the same or flash stock GB.
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Hey guys ! I belong to HTC explorer , Samsung galaxy s and desire hd forums and I'm planing to get this phone , so I want to know a few things bout it :
How's the stock rom ? I mean on my explorer its laggy and almost unbearable
How's the battery life with continues use of WiFi and a lot of texting and music , that's the only reson I buy a phone though
I didn't had much Time to check that dose HTC one v have sense 4.1 or sense 4 FULL ?
Dose it have 8-10 different types of lockscreens ? (Weather , friend stream , stock etc )
How's the over all smoothness ? Is it worth the money ?
Thanks ,
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Is it with the money? That depends. My carrier has dropped the price continually down to $100CDN and then stopped carrying it.
It's a much better phone if you install a custom rom on it. There are other phones that are newer and will likely have a front camera for similar price.
But, saying that, I like mine (custom ROM) just fine
I just got htc one v and it's fine for me. But battery last just for one day in my case - wifi on and a lot of texting. But I like it - it's fine for me and I thkink worth it's money.
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Is it with the money? That depends. My carrier has dropped the price continually down to $100CDN and then stopped carrying it.
It's a much better phone if you install a custom rom on it. There are other phones that are newer and will likely have a front camera for similar price.
But, saying that, I like mine (custom ROM) just fine
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Thanks for that but it didn't really had answer to my all question ; lockscreen type and full sense 4 or not etc...
Graveler said:
I just got htc one v and it's fine for me. But battery last just for one day in my case - wifi on and a lot of texting. But I like it - it's fine for me and I thkink worth it's money.
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The Lockscreen is not customizable. It's not full sense. To get what you want, you would have to root it and install ckpv5's mysense 3.5 rom., which is good.
I mentioned the price because you didn't. If it's more than $100, I would say get another phone. HTC will never upgrade it. They have already said so.
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The Lockscreen is not customizable. It's not full sense. To get what you want, you would have to root it and install ckpv5's mysense 3.5 rom., which is good.
I mentioned the price because you didn't. If it's more than $100, I would say get another phone. HTC will never upgrade it. They have already said so.
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You're making me Chang my mind , but the only fact I appreciate about HOV is that its metallic body , good camera and attractive looks, am I right ? So Soon I'll go for one
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How bout the stock Rom ? Dose it lags ?
Via HTC sense
Blue3125 said:
How bout the stock Rom ? Dose it lags ?
Via HTC sense
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Stock rom is really bad. Most people here are running sphongle aosp based here. Sense is just too heavy for this phone.
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Blue3125 said:
Hey guys ! I belong to HTC explorer , Samsung galaxy s and desire hd forums and I'm planing to get this phone , so I want to know a few things bout it :
How's the stock rom ? I mean on my explorer its laggy and almost unbearable
How's the battery life with continues use of WiFi and a lot of texting and music , that's the only reson I buy a phone though
I didn't had much Time to check that dose HTC one v have sense 4.1 or sense 4 FULL ?
Dose it have 8-10 different types of lockscreens ? (Weather , friend stream , stock etc )
How's the over all smoothness ? Is it worth the money ?
Thanks ,
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Well, it would be wise (normal, according to rules...) to first read all threads about hov. :angel:
Then, if you're stuck, ask... Sorry, we all know how to read, do you? :fingers-crossed:
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Stock rom is really bad. Most people here are running sphongle aosp based here. Sense is just too heavy for this phone.
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I was expecting the ui to be smooth and fast but Nevermind I really like it's camera and metallic body and I hope stock Rom wouldn't be that bad cause on my explorer with 600 MHz CPU it runs sense 4 pretty good (lags for a while, but a reboot fixes that) and on my desire hd it have 1 GHz CPU and it runs sense for just like stock , full sense 4 . So if DHD can run full sense sooth as hell with 1 GHz CPU , I see no reson for HOV to lag on lite version of sense with the same CPU
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I was expecting the ui to be smooth and fast but Nevermind I really like it's camera and metallic body and I hope stock Rom wouldn't be that bad cause on my explorer with 600 MHz CPU it runs sense 4 pretty good (lags for a while, but a reboot fixes that) and on my desire hd it have 1 GHz CPU and it runs sense for just like stock , full sense 4 . So if DHD can run full sense sooth as hell with 1 GHz CPU , I see no reson for HOV to lag on lite version of sense with the same CPU
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Well I guess it depends on your standards, but my old LG GT540 with a 806mhz cpu that ran ICS way better than the HTC one V does ICS sense.
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You can get different lock screens. All kinds of them for this phone. There are also Full Sense 4/4.1 Roms. Not JB Sense yet though if thats what you meant. Its actually an ok phone. I mainly use mine for gps,music, camera and social. On a good sense ROM battery will be great. On AOSP it will vary and usually not be so good. Good AOSP Roms are best for gaming. The metal case really helps, and its buttoned up pretty good. Put mine through some abuse. Its holding up nice. The stock ROM on mine actually wasn't too bad. Just with stock ROM and a good kernel its usable. But the best results are from a custom rom. Lots of good ones. Still development going on.
All that being said I would actually recommend a One S for what your looking for.
The camera one the One V isn't great. Night shots suck, and at 5mp its pretty low. One S has a great camera and 1080p video.
Battery is pretty small (One S isn't much bigger though)
And the One S is more powerful and smoother.
I've had my One V for about 4 months. Always wished I got a better One S.
One V is a good beginner phone.
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You can get different lock screens. All kinds of them for this phone. There are also Full Sense 4/4.1 Roms. Not JB Sense yet though if thats what you meant. Its actually an ok phone. I mainly use mine for gps,music, camera and social. On a good sense ROM battery will be great. On AOSP it will vary and usually not be so good. Good AOSP Roms are best for gaming. The metal case really helps, and its buttoned up pretty good. Put mine through some abuse. Its holding up nice. The stock ROM on mine actually wasn't too bad. Just with stock ROM and a good kernel its usable. But the best results are from a custom rom. Lots of good ones. Still development going on.
All that being said I would actually recommend a One S for what your looking for.
The camera one the One V isn't great. Night shots suck, and at 5mp its pretty low. One S has a great camera and 1080p video.
Battery is pretty small (One S isn't much bigger though)
And the One S is more powerful and smoother.
I've had my One V for about 4 months. Always wished I got a better One S.
One V is a good beginner phone.
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Yeah 1+
Shent with shexy kitteh ushin Sensation XE and One V
Yeah so if you want it, it's a nice small, solid feeling phone, one v is good for that. But, if I were you, I'd root it and put either bandit's beaver ROM on it off one of ckpv5's
Hey thanks to all , I guess I'll be in this forum soon enough about in a 2-3 week's , one s is generally out of my budget :/
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Buy it n root it
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Buy it n root it
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I'll stick to stock for a while and then I'll root it and flash a full sense Rom, probably
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I'll stick to stock for a while and then I'll root it and flash a full sense Rom, probably
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Full sense gona lag , u can try bandit sense or ckpv5 sense lite
Shent with shexy kitteh ushin Sensation XE and One V
i would say don't buy it.. ul repent really..
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paarthdesai said:
i would say don't buy it.. ul repent really..
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And why you say don't but it ?
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