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Hi all,
I am thinking of selling my Xperia X1, that still is a great phone, but I wanted something faster.
I am considering Omnia 2, because of the battery life. As it carries the same battery capacity as Xperia, I would like to know how it performs.
My other choice was HTC HD2, but when I heard that I could not be sure it would even last me one day, I started looking for something different.
I want a WM phone, as all the programs I have (like GPS Tomtom) run on WM and I am used to it right now.
When I read some reviews about Omnia 2, I got the impression that the Samsung skin is slow and not very useful. I would like to ask if there are some good ROMS for it that solve the problem, and if you think it is worth moving from X1 to Omnia 2, or should I just go HD2.
Thank you all for the input.
UI performance with rom that my O2 shipped (I8000NIL5) was poor. Every time you switched screen widgets reloaded and this took time - just watch some review video and you will know what am I talking about.
Now I am using I8000NJD3 rom (by the way, it is WM 6.5.3) and UI runs smoothly. It is really a big difference! Plus you can choose between widgetplus and samsung today home screens (like work and life mode with B7610). Samsung's cube and main menu are gone but if you ask me they were useless. Also all the programs are updated but there is still room for enhancements.
For me, battery lasts for 2 days - hour or two of conversation, few messages and some web browsing using wi-fi. Decent performance I think.
Well with heavy use I can not get through all day without charging but that is the story with all phones on market.
You mentioned GPS program. It takes few minutes to get a fix on cold start on a sunny day.
And, when I bought a new phone I was choosing between O2 and HD2 too. Decided for O2 because I got it for ahalf of HD2's price (talking about carrier's price, not retail!). I am pretty satisfied with decision.
I had the same choice as well and chose the O2 over the HD2.
I am happy with my little "Sammy" as well.
Mr Frog
I think my Omnia 2 (i920) battery has only died once since having the phone since December. I use internet and messaging pretty heavily daily. I have no problem getting a day to two days worth out of a full charge.
The samsung widget interface isn't the best, definitely laggy and widgets are unresponsive or disappear at times.. but that's why I don't use it
There are tons of other UI's though, the one I've been using and like the best is throttle launcher..
The thing I like most about Omnia 2 is the swype keyboard, makes typing really fast once you get used to it.
The one issue I have had with this phone is that incoming phone calls or text messages will sometimes go unnoticed. That is because the ringer will not sound, yes even when volume is on full. It seems a lot of other people have been having this problem too.. It happens about 40% of the time and is rather annoying.
If I had a choice between HD2 and this phone I would definitely not purchase this one again. Overall it is a good phone, I am just tired of Omnias (had Omnia i910 too). They seem to be late to market with features and so on, not really ahead of the curve..
mchaves44 said:
The one issue I have had with this phone is that incoming phone calls or text messages will sometimes go unnoticed. That is because the ringer will not sound, yes even when volume is on full.
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Never had this problem. But I have I8000, not I920.
out of the box this phone (i8000) is a peace of **** that you will just want to throw away. But thanks to cookers that issue is solved this phone dose everything you need. Using a custom lite ROM i get around 100MB of usable memory vs the 40MB on stock. I read many reviews on this phone as well and was a bit worried about it but took the plunge and could not be happier, the fact it had such bad reviews made it that much more cheaper when i went to purchase a new phone. So in the end it was a great deal for me and the hardware is still amazing for this phone, yeah it not your 1GHz snapdragon but still good enough. I just hope samsung do not forget out this phone and continue to support it, mainly adding openGL support. They have been very good with updates thus far and now its 6.5.3 so it getting better.
This phone has 2 major problems
1.) Low RAM which can be fixed by using a lite ROM, although i hope future updates reduce the reserved RAM.
2.) OpenGL driver, this phones dose not have any. I did not take this into account when i bought the phone. I thought it would just work and all apps won't have any issues and i was wrong. There are devs working on the drivers like chainfire and they do fix many apps like sences and the such but again its not fully featured drivers.
So if you buy this phone you will have to flash and tweak it to get a everyday usable phone.
p.S wtf how do you guys have swype as the default keyboard?
jebise101 said:
wtf how do you guys have swype as the default keyboard?
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Only I920 has Swype preinstalled.
ohh i wonder if i can get my hands on a cab
Thank you very much for the input. It was very helpful to see what users think about their devices. It makes me sad to see such a great phone, with an OLED screen and a big batterylife, with such poor software. I like WM phones, and I do not think I will switch to android that fast, but the only usable WM phone is HD2 and that has a battery life of an hybrid car (2km just on battery). If you use it moderatly it will not even last you one day.
I hope that this phone will at least have good gps tracking, better batt life, and that with a custom rom it will be faster then my Xperia X1.
If anyone wants to add something new about this phone, just post it here.
jebise101
jebise101
This phone has 2 major problems
1.) Low RAM which can be fixed by using a lite ROM said:
Where did get the lite ROM?
I need to do the same thing on my i8000 also.
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Many here currently using kydkylin sence ROM although its a bit slow still a lot faster then stock, just avoid using the music tab if you want to keep RAM usually have 50-60MB after full day. Or if you want the litest ROM there is tw2 JE1 gives around 103MB on boot.
Thanks a lot.
how can i upgrade to jd3?
hi guys
i m a new omnia2 user. need help with upgrading.
my phone is originally from netherlands and came with wm 6.1
i upgraded to JC rom using pc studio and 3 days later PC notified
that i had an upgrade.
again upgraded and i got IL5 now. NPS says i have installed the latest version!
so how can i get the latest rom, pls. and i wont to do it officially.
(no cooked roms)
thanks
monsterfly need help pls
monsterfly said:
UI performance with rom that my O2 shipped (I8000NIL5) was poor. Every time you switched screen widgets reloaded and this took time - just watch some review video and you will know what am I talking about.
Now I am using I8000NJD3 rom (by the way, it is WM 6.5.3) and UI runs smoothly. It is really a big difference! Plus you can choose between widgetplus and samsung today home screens (like work and life mode with B7610). Samsung's cube and main menu are gone but if you ask me they were useless. Also all the programs are updated but there is still room for enhancements.
For me, battery lasts for 2 days - hour or two of conversation, few messages and some web browsing using wi-fi. Decent performance I think.
Well with heavy use I can not get through all day without charging but that is the story with all phones on market.
You mentioned GPS program. It takes few minutes to get a fix on cold start on a sunny day.
And, when I bought a new phone I was choosing between O2 and HD2 too. Decided for O2 because I got it for ahalf of HD2's price (talking about carrier's price, not retail!). I am pretty satisfied with decision.
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pls tell me how to upgrade to jd3 officially. my phone is from netherlands, and the upgrade i got today was to IL5, which is an old one. (am i right?) but they indicate that i have the latest rom installed!
pls help me out
thanks
kanishkapd said:
pls tell me how to upgrade to jd3 officially. my phone is from netherlands, and the upgrade i got today was to IL5, which is an old one. (am i right?) but they indicate that i have the latest rom installed!
pls help me out
thanks
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I posted answer in this thread you started.
As said there, roms mentioned there are made by Samsung but can't get them via PC Studio, so I don't know if I can say that this is official upgrade (decide by yourself ).
jebise101 said:
out of the box this phone (i8000) is a peace of **** that you will just want to throw away. But thanks to cookers that issue is solved this phone dose everything you need. Using a custom lite ROM i get around 100MB of usable memory vs the 40MB on stock. I read many reviews on this phone as well and was a bit worried about it but took the plunge and could not be happier, the fact it had such bad reviews made it that much more cheaper when i went to purchase a new phone. So in the end it was a great deal for me and the hardware is still amazing for this phone, yeah it not your 1GHz snapdragon but still good enough. I just hope samsung do not forget out this phone and continue to support it, mainly adding openGL support. They have been very good with updates thus far and now its 6.5.3 so it getting better.
This phone has 2 major problems
1.) Low RAM which can be fixed by using a lite ROM, although i hope future updates reduce the reserved RAM.
2.) OpenGL driver, this phones dose not have any. I did not take this into account when i bought the phone. I thought it would just work and all apps won't have any issues and i was wrong. There are devs working on the drivers like chainfire and they do fix many apps like sences and the such but again its not fully featured drivers.
So if you buy this phone you will have to flash and tweak it to get a everyday usable phone.
p.S wtf how do you guys have swype as the default keyboard?
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I quite agree with most points made here, but there's a lot more to this phone than what you get out of the box.
Once you've registered on this and Modaco's forum the possibilities are virtually endless with the i8000.
When I first got this phone I nearly sent it back because of the lagging and I fancied an Android device( I still hunker after the Galaxy S now ) but I have stuck with the i8000 and I am very happy with it thanks to the great people cooking roms out there!
Omnia II is wonderful
I think this phone need excellent people to cook for it. I'm waiting for Energy ROMs to come.
* The camera is realy nice with alot of features to make nice pictures.
* Video recording is wonderful with 720 pixels recording. "I used daiamond, touch pro & HD from HTC. I will tell you it is wonderful and the difference is big.
* The samsung applications are nice and you will see tha the samsung taste is there in all applications. Sometimes you will forget yourself as being using WM!!. It is another taste.
* The battery is really having good life of more than one day for sure
* The processor is 800, the screen is much better then that of HTC.
* Samsung is producing official firmware nearly every month and although it was originally coming with wm 6.1 but it is officially upgradable to 6.5
* with the new firmware coming last July the free ram is nice. With good cooking it will go more.
* The performance is rely fast and rarly you need to do soft reset.
In summary, When excellent cooking coms to this device it will be more wonderful.
Thanks
Hi guys. Im new to the forums. Hopefully I can return the favour one day and help people out
I was looking at either purchasing a google N1 or Samsung Galaxy S within the next week or so. Currently I think the Samsung Galaxy S is my main choice. However there are a few things that are bugging me about the phone and I was hoping some people here could clarify a few things for me
1: Is there GPS issues on all of the devices? Or is it 50% or what?
2: Ive read numerous times that the Galaxy S lags. Why is this? Does it happen to all devices or what?
3: How good is the development support for it? Sorry if that doesnt make sense. What I mean is that looking at the N1 forum there seems to be alot more things to install/download than the SGS.
4: How bad is the battery? Ive read threads and people say the battery dies within a few hours or so of using the phone. Is this when the screen is on full brightness and all things on? Or just when the phone is idle?
5: Is there any other bugs/problems (Like gps, lag) I should know about?
Thanks for all the help - greatly appreciated
1: Don't really use the gps much...
2: The SGS stores app data on a samsung's own rfs file system, which has a slow access speed, thus making apps to load up slower. There are fixes of this, and it is not a hardware problem.
3: SGS community is growing but i don't think it will not be as big as N1 the google phone
4: I can use the phone with moderate use for 12 hours, little use of gps, some wifi, 2g, and lots of music playing.
5: Not really, used mine for almost two months
Wellynz said:
Hi guys. Im new to the forums. Hopefully I can return the favour one day and help people out
I was looking at either purchasing a google N1 or Samsung Galaxy S within the next week or so. Currently I think the Samsung Galaxy S is my main choice. However there are a few things that are bugging me about the phone and I was hoping some people here could clarify a few things for me
1: Is there GPS issues on all of the devices? Or is it 50% or what?
2: Ive read numerous times that the Galaxy S lags. Why is this? Does it happen to all devices or what?
3: How good is the development support for it? Sorry if that doesnt make sense. What I mean is that looking at the N1 forum there seems to be alot more things to install/download than the SGS.
4: How bad is the battery? Ive read threads and people say the battery dies within a few hours or so of using the phone. Is this when the screen is on full brightness and all things on? Or just when the phone is idle?
5: Is there any other bugs/problems (Like gps, lag) I should know about?
Thanks for all the help - greatly appreciated
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If you need reliable GPS, do not buy Galaxy S. Other issues, such as lag, can be resolved using various tweaks from this and other forums.
Ok, Now i've had a mogul for the past 4-5 years, didn't wanna spend more money on a phone that will be old hat in a few months. anyhow, i gave in and now i've got an epic on it's way, today.
I want to get the most from my phone and it's battery life, I also want to use my phone as my mp3 player. so can someone direct me to the best step by step directions on how to do everything. I d/l'd this link
firon.net/xda/one.click.root.exploitv2.5.5 ( ) zip &
32-bit drivers: firon.net/xda/Samsung_Mobile_...00_Epic_4G ( ) zip . . but not to sure what to do from here.
Maybe someone can direct me to the easiest steps to follow as i'm really clueless on what to do and what i'm looking for. any help would be great and thanks in advance!
I'll let someone who knows more about what you need answer, but I just wanted to comment on the Mogul. That was my first "pda phone". I had 2 other windows based pda's, so it was a natural fit. I really liked that phone, and it worked well. I had wi-fi issues with it, so Sprint gave me a Touch Pro. I liked that phone as well. I had some other issue with it and Sprint replaced it with another Touch Pro. The tech said my phone was the first he's seen that the user actually uses it to its fullest potential. I like to get the max I can out of the phone. I had Android on the Touch Pro, but didn't use it for day-to-day things because it ate the battery. I decided to get the Epic because I didn't want to wait for Windows Phone 7, and I didn't like the direction MS was going with it, so Android was the obvious choice (iPhone wasn't even in the running).
I'm glad you joined the Android ranks. What are your impressions of the Epic/Android coming from the Mogul?
It depends on what you want to do with your phone as far as staying on eclair or updating to the froyo leak. If you want to stay on eclair then I would root it with the one click root plus cwm. Then you can install a custom rom/kernel to help with battery life. If you want the froyo leak then I would root it with the one click with cwm version 3. That cwm version will change your filesystem over to ext4. Then you can flash a froyo rom since most are compatable with ext4. The only thing is there are no custom kernels for froyo since we don't have the source code yet. Tell me what way you want to go and I'll help you out.
I've played with a few friends phones, but they were not rooted, and they always kept their power cords with them. I hated that. but i like the keyboard, the screen resolution, i honestly haven't touched any apps yet to date. I am very vanilla when it comes to learning the phone and the whole android process. I have read different forums/blogs and they all direct me back to here for the best help. so I'm here. The biggest thing I really want to do is use the phone as my mp3 player and take advantage of having a very simple os and get the most out of my battery. I do use the inet on my mogul with skyfire but it just doesn't work anymore. I will need to use my calender, fb, things like that, i do like the neat icons that i've seen on different pages. i also was told they even have apps to design your own ringtones with music on ur phone. that's really cool too.. I really feel like a dinosaur with this stuff..
ok, the phone just got here, i'm gonna charge it 1st and then call to activate it after it's finished. also, for xtra cords, any site better than any other?
ok, the phone is here, i've added some apps. and contacts.. now what?
jrjpoohscell said:
ok, the phone just got here, i'm gonna charge it 1st and then call to activate it after it's finished. also, for xtra cords, any site better than any other?
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monoprice.com
Only site you should ever think of when it comes to cables.
jrjpoohscell said:
ok, the phone is here, i've added some apps. and contacts.. now what?
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Load some music up and start using it.
somehow i loaded everything on it, but it went to the phone and not the sd card! is there a way to move it over to the sim card now?
and what do i look under?
cdma phones don't have sim cards. And it doesn't have very much internal memory either, so are you sure you didn't put it on your sdcard like you intended?
sure did.. ur right. see, i am a complete rookie on this one.
Buy an extended battery
I bought an extended battery on eBay back when I got my Epic last November. It is a 2800mAh battery and I can actually run about 10-15 hours of light usage with wifi/4g/gps turned on (10-12 with wifi on, 13-15 with wifi off). If I am watching TV on my Slingbox app, it usually runs for about 6-7 hours. Pocket Legends tends to be a bit of a battery killer but I can still go for about 4-5 hours of gameplay (although the phone tends to overheat...lol). I highly recommend a bigger battery - it does make the phone bigger, but imo it is worth the extra weight. The name on the battery is "Yoobao". I have been using it for about 3+ months now with no issues.
good info. . . how much they running? i really just wanted to run some low power apps..
I think mine was about $35-40. It wasn't very expensive. I just did a quick ebay search for "epic 4g extended battery" and there are now many options for about $15-30. I may actually try out one of the 3500mAh batteries, seeing that the price has dropped! Never hurts to have a spare. Some have separate battery chargers included as well.
Thanks man, I just ordered like 3-4 new cases.. can't remember, i like to change the colors up at times bc i get bored!
Most cases won't fit over the extended batteries, sadly. I'm getting ready to sell my sweet Body Glove case because I never use it. Makes me sad, I really like that case..
Man Oh Man, what to do...
I've been using stock t-mobile rom which isn't awful but i've had a few issues which are way super weird and prefer to get rid of most of the bloat ware and hopefully run at a more reasonable ram amount lol. I've used a few tmobile ones i forget which one's almost all didn't want to send mms's so that was a problem for me :-\ Also my weird problem with the t-mobile rom is I need my bluetooth on constantly or else the batter drains super duper quick like a percent a minute while charging and not also (which the phone heats up like mad and it's just so weird.)
So what rom should I get I want shealth preferably the old one I loved the goal achieved sound the trumpets one and new one doesn't have that for some reason :-\ or I could try a cm based one or pure android. I saw the note 5 one by darklord i'd love that one when the camera's working on it because that feature with screen off is awesome (not that i use the pen enough screen size is to small :-\ imho nice feature sometimes for jot down notes tho ) anyway what does everyone recommend guess a tmobile one is what i need and change the apn's manually and hope mms works lol.
Thanks for the recommendations if any and if you have tmobile note 3 running cricket i'd love to know what you're running and how you like it THANKS again
Just Recieve the 5.1.1 Update,
LMY47X.N915TUVU2COK2
Update size was around 650mb
video calling now enabled
No Themes
samsung pay still doesn't work, because knox was previously tripped.
Android pay works fine (because back on stock rom)
There appear to be NEW edge panels, (been 3months since i checked for panels so my just be new to me)
Did a Speed Test result were very poor 6MB Down 20MB Up Brooklyn NYC.
Also it appears you might not be able to downgrade back to a older verison of android.
Phone feel slower.
I have just updated mine. My phone was lagging very much after update. So i did a reset in Android recovery mode. And now my phone flies!
So This is T Mobile's update? Did you being any chance reset the phone and check if battery life has improved?
Also is the camera button back on the Edge Panel and how is your battery life?
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Alarmmy said:
I have just updated mine. My phone was lagging very much after update. So i did a reset in Android recovery mode. And now my phone flies!
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How is your battery life and is the camera button back on the Edge screen?
Camera button is still on the main screen, just took my phone off the charger will update end of the day with battery usage.
I am not happy with the update. It seems to have disabled the ability to detect my wallet cover. Now when I open and close it the phone does nothing. Instead it just stays showing the screen and nothing on the edge. That is not going to help my battery life. Also, when my alarm went off this morning it didn't give me the option to dismiss the alarm through the edge panel. I had to open the cover, which it didn't recognize and dismiss it on the screen. If you really can't go back to an older version I am just going to trade the phone in and get a Note 5. I loved the Edge but if it is losing some of the best functionalities it has then it is not worth staying with it. If anyone is able to help make the adjustments, at least for the wallet cover that would be appreciated.
edo101 said:
So This is T Mobile's update? Did you being any chance reset the phone and check if battery life has improved?
Also is the camera button back on the Edge Panel and how is your battery life?
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How is your battery life and is the camera button back on the Edge screen?
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I did factory reset, clear everything and the phone runs significant faster. Scrolling and transition are very buttery smooth. Camera button is not back tothe edge. Battery life seems good, but I will test more about that.
It seems the ram management is fixed as well.
Here is the ROM for N915T
http://samsung-firmware.org/model/SM-N915T/
jemadrid said:
Here is the ROM for N915T
http://samsung-firmware.org/model/SM-N915T/
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literally
the
slowest
download
ever.
6 hours?!?!?!?!?! 79-99 KB/S? really...
Got a solid 12hours of battery usage today 3 hours of screen ontime, and rerun speed test see for yourself.
fcjr77 said:
I am not happy with the update. It seems to have disabled the ability to detect my wallet cover. Now when I open and close it the phone does nothing. Instead it just stays showing the screen and nothing on the edge. That is not going to help my battery life. Also, when my alarm went off this morning it didn't give me the option to dismiss the alarm through the edge panel. I had to open the cover, which it didn't recognize and dismiss it on the screen. If you really can't go back to an older version I am just going to trade the phone in and get a Note 5. I loved the Edge but if it is losing some of the best functionalities it has then it is not worth staying with it. If anyone is able to help make the adjustments, at least for the wallet cover that would be appreciated.
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Christ, they really screwed this phone. The best phone ever and they just abandoned it. I suppose it will get worse with M. Why even bother to update this device if you are gonna just gonna give us Note 4. It would be a little less dismissive if they included the new Touchwiz and its features but its just an Android update. Thanks for the input. Looks like its 4.4.4 for life. The Wallet cover (Flip OEM Case) is the best case for this phone and if it doesn't work along with an increasing castration of Edge Screen features, I'm not installing it
jemadrid said:
Here is the ROM for N915T
http://samsung-firmware.org/model/SM-N915T/
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Do u have a account to fast download ? Can u share it.. Thanks
I'll give it a try, but....
I'm on 5.0.1 rooted BOK1 / BOG2 version.
Does anyone know if Root is available for this build?
if not, I'm not even going there because I cannot stand the junk-ware carriers put on the devices.
Update: thanks to TEKHD ! We have it!
Mega Link to COK2.
https://mega.nz/#!R1lWlLaD!pel0FcUWgfCchAsNCc4Qs8Cs5mMDgJeNLtxbVSW46IY
OreBoySwaggin said:
Mega Link to COK2.
https://mega.nz/#!R1lWlLaD
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a password buddy..
Little-Fish said:
a password buddy..
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https://mega.nz/#!R1lWlLaD!pel0FcUWgfCchAsNCc4Qs8Cs5mMDgJeNLtxbVSW46IY
my bad, enjoy.
OreBoySwaggin said:
https://mega.nz/#!R1lWlLaD!pel0FcUWgfCchAsNCc4Qs8Cs5mMDgJeNLtxbVSW46IY
my bad, enjoy.
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Thanks bro !
edo101 said:
Christ, they really screwed this phone. The best phone ever and they just abandoned it. I suppose it will get worse with M. Why even bother to update this device if you are gonna just gonna give us Note 4. It would be a little less dismissive if they included the new Touchwiz and its features but its just an Android update. Thanks for the input. Looks like its 4.4.4 for life. The Wallet cover (Flip OEM Case) is the best case for this phone and if it doesn't work along with an increasing castration of Edge Screen features, I'm not installing it
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Ok I would really like you to list the edge features that have been stripped because I have yet to see any. The camera button was moved off the edge because there was too many complaints of people accidentally taking photos. I think it was a good adjustment, other than that the edge has always been what the edge was supposed to be, an extra screen. I love my note edge and I think it is one of the best android phones out there. The edge screen enhances the way I use my phone because I never have to leave the screen i'm on to access something different and it also cuts down on the amount of mods I need to install because the edge does a good job compensating for pie launchers and other shortcuts. The edge screen has only gotten better in my opinion
fcjr77 said:
I am not happy with the update. It seems to have disabled the ability to detect my wallet cover. Now when I open and close it the phone does nothing. Instead it just stays showing the screen and nothing on the edge. That is not going to help my battery life. Also, when my alarm went off this morning it didn't give me the option to dismiss the alarm through the edge panel. I had to open the cover, which it didn't recognize and dismiss it on the screen. If you really can't go back to an older version I am just going to trade the phone in and get a Note 5. I loved the Edge but if it is losing some of the best functionalities it has then it is not worth staying with it. If anyone is able to help make the adjustments, at least for the wallet cover that would be appreciated.
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Bad idea (Note 5, S, whatever) No removable (i.e. replaceable) battery and no additional storage (sd card)
The only thing that I actually noticed was the Google messenger app I use stopped sending mms messages until I uninstalled it. I have had the update for two hours now but have not seen any battery improvements or any other changes. I don't know if there are any new apps and I did not know about the new vide feature. Speed and battery are my main worries with any new updates. I will give it 48 hours before I make a determination. If it sucks then back to kitkat it is.
Darth-Kadd said:
Ok I would really like you to list the edge features that have been stripped because I have yet to see any. The camera button was moved off the edge because there was too many complaints of people accidentally taking photos. I think it was a good adjustment, other than that the edge has always been what the edge was supposed to be, an extra screen. I love my note edge and I think it is one of the best android phones out there. The edge screen enhances the way I use my phone because I never have to leave the screen i'm on to access something different and it also cuts down on the amount of mods I need to install because the edge does a good job compensating for pie launchers and other shortcuts. The edge screen has only gotten better in my opinion
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Good Lord, how do you accidentally take a picture on the Edge Screen? Its literally out on the other screen. If anything , having a shutter button on the screen makes it super easy to take a picture. When I was on 5.0.1 some notifcations would pop on on screen and my poweramp lock screen would bug out. Also the android player on the edge screen would dissappear every now and then so I couldn't toggle my music on the edge screen