I am coming from almost 1 year use of X10a and even tried Galaxy SII after a week with Arc and sold SII mainly because I hated AMOLED colors and Samsung design and UI.
When I first got Misty Silver Arc (flashed LT15a) into my hands I was excited as the phone looked simply stunning. Felt great in hand.
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Now, after two weeks of use I have very mixed feeling and I am already trying to look for what is out there that looks good and performs like GSII. Atrix? Not sure!!
Pros:
1. Screen
2. Looks (design) & Feel.
3. Gingerbread
4. SE UI
5. Camera
Cons:
1. Phone starts to lag once you install some widgets, and install basic apps. I am almost seeing very minimal gain from my X10 in performance once I install my standard apps/widgets.
2. Camera button is a joke. It's almost impossible to use without shaking the phone too much.
3. Too long. They could have tried and eliminated all that black area that has Sony Ericsson Logo.
4. The battery cover starts to feel squeaky in the middle area towards the side that has volume rockers. I had to put small tape inside to stop that feeling.
I might have to root and remove some pre-installed crap and see how the phone performs. Else, I am seriously thinking to sell the phone and maybe wait for something or go back to SGII and live with it's ugliness and fake colors on AMOLED. I just will have to wait for a good ROM for it as I couldn't stand the Samsung interface. It makes Android feel like their feature phone. I am also going to try and play with Atrix and compared it to arc. If the performance on Atrix is good, I might just get it as the phone feels solid and it at least looks better than GSII.
It amazes me how SE sc*$#s up with every phone in someway and I still end up owning them. With X10 it's the OS version and with Arc, lousy hardware specs. They should at least have provided more memory. I have a feeling they never tested Arc by installing any apps and widgets.
Apps/widgets I have installed - Go Contacts, Go Contacts Themes, Go SMS Pro, Go SMS Themes, Beautiful Widgets, Beautiful Widgets Animation, beautiful widgets themes, Widgetsoid, life.contacts, Amazon MP3, Amazon Appstore, Angry Birds, Angry Birds Rio, Fruit Ninja, Swype, Astro, ESPNCricInfo, Business Calendar, Just Pictures, Yahoo Mail, Tripit, Opera Mini, Twitter, xda premium, and Yelp.
What I mean by Laggy?
I don't mean it's so slow to get annoying. It only felt laggy compared to what I experienced with GSII. It's not annoying but at times I find it annoying when the dialer takes almost couple of seconds to load or my SMS shows blank blue screen for almost 4-6 seconds. At that time, if I restart my phone it performs better. I stopped using Live wallpapers hoping it will help phone perform better. I remember the performance was not like this when i played with the stock ROM. I am not sure if playing with whatsapp screw'd up something. I will try to reflash and see how it behaves.
Update1: I re-flashed my Arc and it now works blazing fast. In the next few weeks I will try to find if any particular app I used caused the issue or it's just a limitation with Arc if you have several apps/widgets installed with over 300 contacts and lost of them with high quality photo image linked through SE UI instead of picking low quality one from GMail.
Update2: I installed most of my commonly used apps and I see no lag now. I suspect having three weather apps might have some cause for the lag before as they were alway setup to get weather updated. I used Beautiful Weather, Go Weather, and WeatherBug Elite. I had Beautiful weather setup to have animation on unlock too. Or it just could be one of the other apps which I am used to download everyday from amazon appstore.
I'm not sure I know what you mean by "laggy"? I've got 8 or 9 widgets on my homescreen, phone still runs like it did out of the box. It's incredibly fast, I've had uptimes longer than you've owned the phone, and most of all, it works very well as a phone. The phone has 512MB of RAM, which means it runs smoothly and there's rarely any lag unless you're doing too many things in the background.
As for the battery door problem, my only comment is "I don't know what you're talking about." Camera button? Works fine for me, and I have a silicone shell over the button. If you're going to complain about a button, I'd recommend the awful power button. It's my biggest complaint about the phone.
Definitely agree on the creaky battery cover. Really detracts from the overall feel of the phone.
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I'm not sure I know what you mean by "laggy"?
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I updated my initial post to explain what I mean by laggy.
I don't mean it's so slow to get annoying. It only felt laggy compared to what I experienced with GSII. At times, I find it gets annoying when the dialer takes almost couple of seconds to load or SMS shows blank blue screen for almost 4-6 seconds. At that time, if I restart my phone it performs better. I stopped using Live wallpapers hoping it will help phone perform better. I remember the performance was not like this when i played with the stock ROM. I am not sure if playing with whatsapp screw'd up something. I will try to reflash and see how it behaves.
I happen to own a LG Optimus 2x as well, if you want a phone fast like hell, just grab that one. Still I using my arc more as I love the design and colours better than on the LG.
After I deleted all the crap I don't use using titanium backup my Arc doesn't feel that laggy anymore, try that too....but still...the LG is faster...
Further on I do think both are great phones, but I wish there were more devs in the Arc section. At the LG section there are very good roms available. I know I shouldn't complain when I am unable to make something myself, but I just miss some nice roms I can try on my Arc.
Before getting another phone, just search here on the forum for complaints, I think in every section at XDA on every phone you will find some cons. It's just to decide which con is important for you...
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If you're going to complain about a button, I'd recommend the awful power button. It's my biggest complaint about the phone.
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I hate the small power button as well. But since I use Widgetsoid and there is Lock Screen option, I never had to use the button (except to reboot, which I seldom do).
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I hate the small power button as well. But since I use Widgetsoid and there is Lock Screen option, I never had to use the button (except to reboot, which I seldom do).
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Agreed.
Power button and camera button could have been better.
You can use the same widget to reboot as well if you are rooted.
I use the screenoff software which gives you some kind of effects when switching off
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You can use the same widget to reboot as well if you are rooted.
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I am aware of that but I am afraid that I may accidentally hit the option, causing my phone to reboot when I had no intention to do so.
I have 9 screens & 21 widgets & phone is as fast as it was out of box.. Rooted & removed crap apps though I can't compare it with SGS2 as i don't own it, but SGS2 ca be faster (due to memory & dua core) but Arc is not laggy
There is a "what can we remove" thread here. It's a good start but there can also be other reasons for laggyness.
Removing programs you don't use and clear unused programs data and killing non-active tasks can speedup you phone, sometimes
I haven't had such "lag" issues.
Maybe you removed something that affected phone aswell.
I come from an iphone 4 and sometimes i found the phone a bit laggy but overall it's a great phone and i love the screen so much ! And i'm glad to finally haver something that note everybody have.
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And i'm glad to finally haver something that note everybody have.
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Yeah, this is something good to brag about! Plus, there isnt any phone that captures better pictures than arc!
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Sorry double post
I just re-flashed the stock ROM and the phone flies. I am going to first root it and remove lot of crap I don't need and then install one app a day to see which one made things 'a little' laggy.
I also suspect if having high quality images for contacts might be the culprit. I remember I had that problem with X10. If SE is scaling down the resolution when it crops, that shouldn't be a problem.
Could it be possible that you are using a slow SD card? I use a class 6 16GB and dont have too much of a lag.
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Could it be possible that you are using a slow SD card? I use a class 6 16GB and dont have too much of a lag.
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I am using whatever came with Arc. I didn't check the class but it is 16GB card.
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I am using whatever came with Arc. I didn't check the class but it is 16GB card.
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Class 2, the lowest
By the way how can we know the class we had of mscard ?
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rumy said:
Could it be possible that you are using a slow SD card? I use a class 6 16GB and dont have too much of a lag.
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Very unlikely to be the cause. Class of an SD card really only affects how fast you can write to it, read speeds are generally extremely fast regardless of class.
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Sorry that this post won't be very thorough, I made a decently structured post but then my browser crashed and I lost it :|
Lol so my main point is that a lot of people have a g1, and I think the best rom/firmware for it was RC.29.
1.5 really slowed the phone down and made the boot time very long.
And 1.6....eh.[developer wise though, YES!]
I would really like to see a developer make a custom rom for the g1 that is very basic I don't need a rotating screen that 1.5 brought, and at most for an on screen keyboard I'd only like to see the t9 keypad and even that I don't care much for, my g1's hardware QWERY is a beautiful thing.
But yea a very basic rom with very minimal options/features so the g1 runs quick, clean, and mean developed by someone who knows how to make the g1 FAST!
I hope you can get the just of this, I understand someone is going to say this unless I announce it, why don't I stay at rc.29 if I like it so much? Because I like my apps working more.
So thank you for reading this, and hopefully this post gains a lot of ground and want so a developer could make this happen
Besides I would think that stripping features from a g1 wouldn't be too hard
[Lastly that was in my other post, why do we still need a video recorder app in the drawer when its so easy to switch to from the camera? ]
No one else is with me on this? Lol sorry I guess if you feel differently.
It's just that I know in an emergency if I needed to copy down a license plate number or make a call I know my g1 would lag so bad and not open up core apps like messaging or the dialer on time.
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No one else is with me on this? Lol sorry I guess if you feel differently.
It's just that I know in an emergency if I needed to copy down a license plate number or make a call I know my g1 would lag so bad and not open up core apps like messaging or the dialer on time.
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Eh I did notice that RC29 did run alot smoother because I had to unroot and return my phone. But I think it's a step backwards. Most people probably have forgotten what it was like and have moved on. Sorry bro.
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no offense... but i ran rc29 for about well about week ago it was not any smother infact it was slower and sucked my battery. i dont use screen ration you can disable it in spare parts and always use the hard keyboard and never have any widgets...although im thinking of messing with some (getting bored) but yeah dude run cm stables and over clock and bit ( like 348 to 568) and ur g1 will run smooth as butter. dont mess with swap and ect because i think it more trouble than its worth on cupcake (cough*)
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no offense... but i ran rc29 for about well about week ago it was not any smother infact it was slower and sucked my battery. i dont use screen ration you can disable it in spare parts and always use the hard keyboard and never have any widgets...although im thinking of messing with some (getting bored) but yeah dude run cm stables and over clock and bit ( like 348 to 568) and ur g1 will run smooth as butter. dont mess with swap and ect because i think it more trouble than its worth on cupcake (cough*)
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Yea I am on the Cyan train, it seems that every other experimental build he puts out messes with my most needed app so I'm flashing all around. And it's ok no offense taken but I genuinely thing a stock phone at rc29 is super fast, I have had this experience and so has some of my other Android buddies on other forums.
Icebergxx said:
Yea I am on the Cyan train, it seems that every other experimental build he puts out messes with my most needed app so I'm flashing all around. And it's ok no offense taken but I genuinely thing a stock phone at rc29 is super fast, I have had this experience and so has some of my other Android buddies on other forums.
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i was thinking about this you would like use a ota rc29 right but have roted goodness right? things like apps to sd and and also having a lot of apps on phone can slow it down. and idk when i was using rc 29 becase i wanted to see if there really was any improvement and i was having to send the phone becase the mic went out. i had alot of forecloses in the stock messaging app i cant think of thing that would be running in the back ground on cup (that you cant disable or not use) that would slow it down. but you are right the original over clocked jf 1.5 was really slow at least when i tested it with neocore got repeatably worse frame rates. but with cm 1.5 builds with over clock to the same speed i got faster up frame rates and ran rc 29 for the heck of it and got the same as did on jf 1.5.
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i was thinking about this you would like use a ota rc29 right but have roted goodness right? things like apps to sd and and also having a lot of apps on phone can slow it down. and idk when i was using rc 29 becase i wanted to see if there really was any improvement and i was having to send the phone becase the mic went out. i had alot of forecloses in the stock messaging app i cant think of thing that would be running in the back ground on cup (that you cant disable or not use) that would slow it down. but you are right the original over clocked jf 1.5 was really slow at least when i tested it with neocore got repeatably worse frame rates. but with cm 1.5 builds with over clock to the same speed i got faster up frame rates and ran rc 29 for the heck of it and got the same as did on jf 1.5.
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As a friendly gesture, tomorrow or the next I am going to load up the dreaming.nbh file in Bootloader and play around with the stock apps and I will get back to you with friendly results.
And I am going to try out Handcent before 1.5
And Twidroid.
My main frustration is just that if someone rear ends me and try's to run via driving I'd love to be able to snap a photo ASAP or break out the messaging app and write down the plate number, my phone lags so much [in my mind at least] I feel I'd rather have a very dimmed down Rom that can support apps on the 1.5/6 firmware.
Well see though :]
I know a lot of mods can fix my problems and some slow them down, but it leans more so on the class of the sd card really.
Icebergxx said:
As a friendly gesture, tomorrow or the next I am going to load up the dreaming.nbh file in Bootloader and play around with the stock apps and I will get back to you with friendly results.
And I am going to try out Handcent before 1.5
And Twidroid.
My main frustration is just that if someone rear ends me and try's to run via driving I'd love to be able to snap a photo ASAP or break out the messaging app and write down the plate number, my phone lags so much [in my mind at least] I feel I'd rather have a very dimmed down Rom that can support apps on the 1.5/6 firmware.
Well see though :]
I know a lot of mods can fix my problems and some slow them down, but it leans more so on the class of the sd card really.
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i hope to see what your results are. im really going to start looking into raw performance. when ever i can get some free time.
I'm back on rc.29 and I really like it, the only draw back to this is that apps I could pull up on 1.5 won't pull up now.
Like I can't pull up twidorids legacy edition thats >1.5
Or handcent
or chomp.
And it's kind of strange :/
I guess I should of prepared better and downloaded them before hand so they'd be in my history. [and no not even clicking view more apps from twidorid pulls up the legacy]
But the phonebook replacement app is there and it works very well.
Just over all a clean UI I love it.
The notifiation bar is solid, and personally it feels faster than an overclockecd cyan build to me.
Swiping between screens, pulling down notifications, the app drawer, opening and closing the screen.
And overall it's just so benificial.
When I'm in the market and I slide my phone open to type then go ahead and close it and search or search while open then close it it doesn't do that stupid **** that 1.5 does where it sets you back one action.
For example lets say I put in handsent.
That's wrong, nothing should pull up.
So ok go back, open the keyboard type in handcent and handcent pulls up, or cool.
Close the phone and it goes back to my results for handsent.
HOW LAME!
I haven't gotten the browser to auto refresh yet due to the lack of internal memory and cache issues, mind you I only have stock apps, but I've navigated between the market and messaging/texts which is already more then impressive compared to lock 2.0 almost clearing the cache and refreshing anything when used.
I love r.c. 29 and so should you, that's just the most bottom, factual, content buyer/consumer happiness attitude there is about the g1.
It's time a dev makes a rc.29 rom that can run 1.5/1.6 apps without adding fancy animation, onscreen keyboards and all that junk.
I might be interested in updating to rc.33 but I have never had luck finding that .zip file so if anyone wants to help out post it here please.
Going to see how well my battery does, it normally never last me more then 6 hours, usually craps at at 4 hours :/
But we shall see!
I tried to upgrade to stock rc.33 but the .zip was too small and failed to instal properly, so I used another .zip and apparently it was a JF rom for 1.5
It loaded fine, installed the radio, then did a few quirky things.
Kinda disappointing that I couldn't get to rc.33 but that's common for me lol.
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I tried to upgrade to stock rc.33 but the .zip was too small and failed to instal properly, so I used another .zip and apparently it was a JF rom for 1.5
It loaded fine, installed the radio, then did a few quirky things.
Kinda disappointing that I couldn't get to rc.33 but that's common for me lol.
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just a grab a modded rc-33 from koush's guide to rooting. its not stock, but eh
I bought a Dell Streak last month. It was a late batch and came with the latest Android 2.2.2
Last year I also had a Dell Streak when it was first released but it had the older Android 1.6 Donut and was slow and laggy.
I sold it several months after and bought an HTC Desire followed by the Desire HD.
I recently saw advertised the Dell Streak having the latest 2.2.2 android.
I thought I'd give it a try since it came with the newer version of Android and also missed the bigger screen!
The HTC Desire HD was then sold. Though the Desire HD had far more ram and was a later phone, it did lag slightly in the menu's and even scrolling through sms messages and names/numbers it would lag, even after updating to the latest 2.3 android....
Surprisingly my new Dell streak which is running a factory stock 2.2.2 without ANY custom roms is a LOT faster than my previous DESIRE HD?
I couldn't believe how much faster 2.2.2 is compared with the older 1.6 donut, at LEAST 60% or more faster...
Amazing how the Streak has HALF the ram of the Desire HD only runs far quicker & smoother...
Going through the menu is 100% smooth, scrolling through messages and phone book is instant and smooth, I'm very happy.
Even listening to music/watching movies gives out loud & excellent crystal clear sound....
Reason I opened this forum is because some people think the Streak is old, **** & slow as it originally was due to the 1.6 donut.
Most people do not realise the boost in performance Android 2.2.2 has given to the device, making more use of the cpu & ram.
What do you guys/girls have to say about the improvements from 1.6 to 2.2.2?
I would love it even more if Dell gives us 2.3.4, with Google Video Chat
When I got mine in October, it came with 1.6, and I waited..."2.2 is just around the corner". In December, I used the QDL tool to get it to one version, then threw the 2.2 version, then when 2.2.2 came out put that on. Was working great until the last update of Lancher Pro, and it started FC, laggy etc, blew that out and put Go launcher on it. It's blazing fast now.
Hi OP:
As you said your streak is relatively new, could you tell us what rom is installed on it? (You're still on stock correct?)
It should be in Settings -> about phone and look something like:
GAUSB1A134700
If it's not could you post what version it is and what build number?
TheManii said:
Hi OP:
As you said your streak is relatively new, could you tell us what rom is installed on it? (You're still on stock correct?)
It should be in Settings -> about phone and look something like:
GAUSB1A134700
If it's not could you post what version it is and what build number?
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Sure.
Baseband version - GAUSB1A134700-US
VERSION - 2.2.2
Build Number - 15274
All I know is that it's a US import and yes, it's all stock.
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When I got mine in October, it came with 1.6, and I waited..."2.2 is just around the corner". In December, I used the QDL tool to get it to one version, then threw the 2.2 version, then when 2.2.2 came out put that on. Was working great until the last update of Lancher Pro, and it started FC, laggy etc, blew that out and put Go launcher on it. It's blazing fast now.
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For me it was never laggy, was just ok. However, after installing and using ADW Launcher Pro, it's made it blazingly fast, smooth & responsive for EVERYTHING.
I'm shocked it's far quicker & smoother than my previous HTC Desire HD having more ram...
My HTC Desire HD used to lag through the phone book, numbers and even scrolling through text messages used to be laggy...
I'm very happy with my streak and would not sell it for the world.
Also, EVERYONE who see's it go crazy, their eyes pop out.
People wanna know what it is, where I bought it, how much, etc...
It get's a lot of attention...
I love the looks on peoples faces when I take it out my pocket in the tube...
Oh yeah, and ONE more thing I forgot to mention.
It's the quality screen! Some reviews slag it off saying the screen is dim, bad colours/contrast, viewing angles, etc....
I agree it may not be that great in direct sunlight or viewing angles...
However, under normal viewing, or in dim/dark light I would say the Streak has one of the BEST & SHARPEST screens I have even seen on a phone...
Even better and sharper than my HTC Desire HD...
I will compare the screen later on this evening to my friends Samsung Galaxy...
Apart from the Galaxy having better viewing angles, I'm sure the Streak will look similar side by side with regards to screen quality....
Remember guys, Dell make screens, both LCD & LED screens and they make one of the best screens you can buy.
Therefore they will not make a **** screen for a phone...
Remember, my screen brightness is set permanently to 70% and it's crazy bight...
Here are some pics of how my streak looks:
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Some People can't be bothered to do updates...
I got my Streak new with 1.6 which saw 5min runtime on my streak total.
Newest Baseband/Baserom 354 and Streakdroid 1.9.1 and everything is good now.
I would never sell an Android Phone because the Original Rom sucks.
Twist79 said:
Some People can't be bothered to do updates...
I got my Streak new with 1.6 which saw 5min runtime on my streak total.
Newest Baseband/Baserom 354 and Streakdroid 1.9.1 and everything is good now.
I would never sell an Android Phone because the Original Rom sucks.
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Yeah, but you should really update. In some cases updates can be worse and cause other problems...
However, with the 2.2.2 update for the Dell Streak along with ADW Launcher pro makes it superfast & smooth phone.
Believe me as I used to have 1.6 Donut last year when I first bought the Streak...
It was sluggish. Even with the update to 2.1 it was slightly laggy although there was a slight improvement...
However, with the very LATEST update of 2.2.2, there is a real NOTICABLE difference...
It is now on par with every other high end phone, not really much different than an iphone 3g/4g, especially with something like ADW launcher.
Don't be lazy to update, you don't realize what your missing!
Also more compatability, some apps require android 2.1 or higher as a minimum requirement otherwise it may not work, so it's for the best.
Don't forget other improvements such as response, battery life, camera improvements, fixes, stability, etc...
I charged my Streak last night. It's been turned on since 11:00 at night...
It is now 2:51 in the afternoon, so it's been turned on almost 16 hours and the battery has dropped from 100% to just 95%
Battery life has been greatly improved too...
Do you guys think that different Streaks have different quality screens?
Meaning different batches/samples are better than others?
I do not remember the screen on my old Streak from last year.
However, I can say my new Streak has a BETTER & BRIGHTER screen than my own laptop as I compared the SAME images!
It's brighter, much more vivid/strong colours. Better contrast, better black & whites...
As I said previously I will compare my Streak later on this evening to my friends Samsung Galaxy and see if there's much of a difference and report back.
My Battery Life ist about 1% per hour in standby. But it constantly checks my gmail, Exchange email, google RSS feeds, Weather and so on.
But thats fine be my standards...my Defy (CM Nightly, SEA Kernel, undervolted) makes 2 working Days at its best...running the same apps but well its my business mobile so I use it a lot for calls.
The Blade(Swedish Spring R5) of my girlfriend makes a day....if she is lucky. Yeah...she loves the games....
Twist79 said:
My Battery Life ist about 1% per hour in standby. But it constantly checks my gmail, Exchange email, google RSS feeds, Weather and so on.
But thats fine be my standards...my Defy (CM Nightly, SEA Kernel, undervolted) makes 2 working Days at its best...running the same apps but well its my business mobile so I use it a lot for calls.
The Blade(Swedish Spring R5) of my girlfriend makes a day....if she is lucky. Yeah...she loves the games....
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That's amazing since your connected to the internet and the phone is automatically checking/exchanging emails, weather, etc...
With regards to battery, i've had upto 3-4 days use out of my Streak, 24/7 turned on.
This was with minimal use, few minutes of calls & no internet.
Standby is excellent on the phone.
My previous HTC Desire HD battery would drop like a fly when on standby with NO use at all, around 1-2% per hour!!
I have mine at 100% when I hit the sack (11pm) and in the morning it can be anywhere from 84-90% left.
I have it checking email every 30 minutes (work), weather once an hour.
On the way to work, I just top it off.
I agree..... I think later-issue Streaks do have the best non-amoled screens around..... On another note, I thought I had read every Streak review ever published, but I just found a newer in-depth, 8-page one at: http://www.kitguru.net/mobile/zardon/dell-streak-review-ferrari-red-revisited-with-froyo-2-2/
Enjoy!
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I agree..... I think later-issue Streaks do have the best non-amoled screens around..... On another note, I thought I had read every Streak review ever published, but I just found a newer in-depth, 8-page one at: http://www.kitguru.net/mobile/zardon/dell-streak-review-ferrari-red-revisited-with-froyo-2-2/
Enjoy!
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Thanks for the link. Went through the review, it scored very well indeed and I agree with the review.
There is a huge difference from 1.6 to 2.2.2...
Only one thing you might be able to suggest.
Whilst in call volume, music and movie playback is clear and loud through the loud speakers, it is somewhat weak through my ear phones.
I've tried 2 different earphones, one being very expensive and was VERY loud on my previous HTC Desire HD.
What would you suggest to get louder audio playback through earphones?
I'm currently using Playerpro. It even comes with an equalizer. Even after increasing the preamp & playing around with the equalizer, it seems to have an effect through the loudspeakers but is still too low using earphones, even at max volume is not enough.
Any suggestions for an alternative music/mp3 player or a way to incease volume, mainily for music?
This will save me buying an mp3 player just to listen to music.
Thanks.
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Thanks for the link. Went through the review, it scored very well indeed and I agree with the review.
There is a huge difference from 1.6 to 2.2.2...
Only one thing you might be able to suggest.
Whilst in call volume, music and movie playback is clear and loud through the loud speakers, it is somewhat weak through my ear phones.
I've tried 2 different earphones, one being very expensive and was VERY loud on my previous HTC Desire HD.
What would you suggest to get louder audio playback through earphones?
I'm currently using Playerpro. It even comes with an equalizer. Even after increasing the preamp & playing around with the equalizer, it seems to have an effect through the loudspeakers but is still too low using earphones, even at max volume is not enough.
Any suggestions for an alternative music/mp3 player or a way to incease volume, mainily for music?
This will save me buying an mp3 player just to listen to music.
Thanks.
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I was just lurking in streak thread as I have always wanted this device. Currently I am using blazingly fast cm7 on my optimus one phone with gb audio effects. And I can't think of a phone now with gb audio effects. I have also asked for this dillema in another streak thread. After reading a bit, I think camera and earphone sound quality are the only two major issues with this device.
On your question, I would suggest that you should try to install dsp manager with instructions given in the relevant thread at xda.
But you should have root and also take a nandroid backup before proceeding to do this, as system might not boot if some problem / incompatibility is there. Search for dsp manager installation guide on xda.
There is one more thing, of which I am not sure as I have not tried it on froyo and may be froyo doesn't have audio effects coding and libs inbuilt. But you can take some clues from my audio effects thread op under optimus one development.
The later involves pasting soundfx folder under system/lib. Then you have to change permissions, reboot and install equalizer app from market or somewhere else.
Since the discussion is about Dell Streak 2.2.2.....
When i bought my Dell Streak5 few months back it came with 2.1 which I have upgraded to 2.2 . Quite like the dell streak 5 with its big screen, live wallpapers , ability to stop unnecessary process etc. Infact I like my Streak5 better than iphone 3gs which I had been using for 2 years..
I quite like Stage UI and would like to upgrade to 2.2.2 which has a better Stage UI. But I could hear issues from others complaining about reboots, UI being very laggy , battery loosing charge fast etc. So iam in two minds about upgrading to 2.2.2.
I also heard getting rid of StageUI to ADW would resolve most of the issues in 2.2.2. Is that true ?
Lets say if I upgrade to 2.2.2 and find lots of issues , how can i downgrade to 2.1 or 2.2 ? Does anyone know ? If yes can you let me know the steps to do it ?
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Since the discussion is about Dell Streak 2.2.2.....
I also heard getting rid of StageUI to ADW would resolve most of the issues in 2.2.2. Is that true ?
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I used app freeze, to freeze out the stage UI, and left it that way for a week, just to make sure it didn't screw something up, then I just uninstalled it.
There is a newer version of stage, it works, but I just don't care for the interface. Use to use Launcher Pro, but the last couple of updates were causing huge lags, Go Launcher is as smooth as silk
Now that Samsung have officially confirmed that the Note will be one of the first to get the ICS update, what improvements will it make? Will it be worth while doing it for Note works very well on Gingerbread.
The most important for me, except other nice features, is that ics will optimized full the 2 cores of Note and improved more battery life.
Sent from the best smartphone, Galaxy Note...
I am sure ICS will fly on the Note. Full dual core optimisation is what I am wanting.
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the most SICK news it's "hardware acceleration"
we got much mote better GPU than Samsung Galaxy Nexus !
So our phone will ROCK !
i know they said ICS in Q1 but have they released a tentative date?. .
any ideas? .or patterns with samsung?
I hope they take their time releasing ICS. The fewer the bugs, the better for us
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i know they said ICS in Q1 but have they released a tentative date?. .
any ideas? .or patterns with samsung?
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I was talking to a Samsung rep on phone today and when i asked him about ICS, he said "Its already on ICS". So my next question was: "are you sure? cause i am on 2.3.6". He said "yeah what i meant was, since our nexus has it, it won't be long before the note gets it. No official dates as to when it comes" So, either a) he had no idea what he was talking about, or b) ICS is being tested on the note as we speak
what im waiting for is AOSP ICS rom or CM9 would do. The reason is FULL tablet interface, experience.
I'm wondering how much faster the camera will be. Romain Guy said that the zero shutter lag on the galaxy nexus is a combination of software+hardware optimisations, so it will be interesting to find out what kind of improvement we will get. At the moment it feels like there is 1 second between each of 1) Pressing the camera button, 2) The shutter noise and 3) actual photo taken. It's a bizarre experience.
It's gonna be LEGEND......
..wait for it....
....ARY!
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I'm wondering how much faster the camera will be. Romain Guy said that the zero shutter lag on the galaxy nexus is a combination of software+hardware optimisations, so it will be interesting to find out what kind of improvement we will get. At the moment it feels like there is 1 second between each of 1) Pressing the camera button, 2) The shutter noise and 3) actual photo taken. It's a bizarre experience.
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The main reason they used a 5MP instead of an 8MP camera in the Galaxy Nexus was speed. Fewer pixels to process, fewer pixels to write to storage. Don't expect that kind of speed on the Note, or a GS2, etc when they get the ICS camera app.
To be honest, if you use the technique and aren't using the flash where you prepare the camera by pressing the shutter button first and then release when you want to take the picture then there is virtually no meaningful lag.
You definitely have a different note than me. The lag ducks. Do like the camera tho.
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To be honest, if you use the technique and aren't using the flash where you prepare the camera by pressing the shutter button first and then release when you want to take the picture then there is virtually no meaningful lag.
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Im hoping that ICS might correct my offset screen (s-pen, finger input) and somehow get rid of the pinkish huein the middle of the pictures i take.
If Dolohin HD crashed less that would be great.
Other than that, everything else would be gravy. I love my Note and I am now done with iphones. My son still has a 4gS but I cant even stand to look at it!
However, Im not one of those people who judge others. If you love iphones, more power to ya!
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Im hoping that ICS might correct my offset screen (s-pen, finger input) and somehow get rid of the pinkish huein the middle of the pictures i take.
If Dolohin HD crashed less that would be great.
Other than that, everything else would be gravy. I love my Note and I am now done with iphones. My son still has a 4gS but I cant even stand to look at it!
However, Im not one of those people who judge others. If you love iphones, more power to ya!
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Ics should fix the spen problem, ics has stylus input already built in.
Yes having the spen more accurate would be a great new advantage of having ICS on Note..
I am still impressed by the speed of my note. With ICS if it gets better... Awesome!
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Ics should fix the spen problem, ics has stylus input already built in.
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I got sick of my pen making random selections and acting erratic. I had a fit lol amd ripped the button off the side of the pen. Problem solved. Its still offset and i despise that bur at least when i pass the pen over the screen it doesnt select something from and inch away from the screen. I will buy a new pen with no button function. Thr only thing i ever used the button for was screen caputure but i can do that easily with hone button + sleep button.
I notice that on some web pages when i want to click a link, i have to compensate by pressing higher that the hyper link with my finger or pen.
Samsung wants to have an s-pen smartphone... GET IT RIGHT. As far as finger touch goes, there is no excuse for having to press 2mm higher than the hyperlink. Thats a lack of screen calibration which i find ignorant.
Now if i could stop all of my browsers from closing abruptly i would be less angry about the screen calibration. My iphone browser has never closed on me, not on any of them.
Still love my phone though. However, i seem to be refering to it as the galaxy n7000 because between tje pen and the unforgivable lack of screen calibration, "Note" seems a like a title that it has yet to earn.
Strange, I have no spen inaccuracy problem.
However I would like to see:
1-Better camera picture quality,the sharpness in the taken pics really sucks.
2-faster,this is a must be addressed issue,the wakeup lag from the homebutton,the lag while opening applications specially the Contacts is just unforgivable for hardware with such specs.
3-I have no such issue in the Opera browser since its not hardware accelerated,but both Dolphin and stock browsers which support that feature crush a lot and suffer from battery drainage. This of course could be because gingerbread doesn't support that feature either.
Other than these three very important issues all is well on my front.!!
hagba said:
Strange, I have no spen inaccuracy problem.
However I would like to see:
1-Better camera picture quality,the sharpness in the taken pics really sucks.
2-faster,this is a must be addressed issue,the wakeup lag from the homebutton,the lag while opening applications specially the Contacts is just unforgivable for hardware with such specs.
3-I have no such issue in the Opera browser since its not hardware accelerated,but both Dolphin and stock browsers which support that feature crush a lot and suffer from battery drainage. This of course could be because gingerbread doesn't support that feature either.
Other than these three very important issues all is well on my front.!!
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Correct. Whilst it's not perfect the wake up lag is poor. Sometimes when opening sms messages or contacts/phonebook it takes upto 4 seconds which is unnacceptable!!!
It should be instantaneous...
im pretty excited about ics too exspecially about the new ui. I was looking through the features list and it didnt say any thing about it there but does any one know if the default mail app (not gmail) has push notifications
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I read the page but it didn't say anything about push email which is really important to me, i use yahoo mail as a default mail and i use the ymail app, not that there is anything wrong with it but i prefer the default email app as sometimes when you want to "share" something there is the message, Bluetooth, email and stuff but sometimes it doesn't have the share through yahoo mail app, plus the yahoo mail takes forever to 'attach' pictures and send.
I just wanted to know if you guys know anything about the push email on the default email app, i know the gmail app has it but im not switching to gmail
Another thing i would like to know is this:
Huge fan of reading ebooks, and note has a sexy screen perfect for reading books, and i love the ui the books are displayed above, can any one clarify if that is only for tablets, or is an app on the android market (checked the market and nothing) or will only be available on ics when it comes out
Also will the 'US' version of android market be available outside US on ics or we still got to root and then use market enabler?
Hope ICS comes out soon with as little bugs and and plenty of improvements possible!!
Hi all.
I am slightly disappointed with my galaxy s3.
I recently made the switch from owning all iPhones since their release. IMO, iPhone never really did enough to compete with the rest of the field so I switched. How wrong was I!
I must admit I am sick to death with having to go into task manager to close apps and clear ram. If I don't do this pushing the home button from an app will result in the device hanging.
For a device that has some much power under the hood its really frustrating to see they haven't really made a good barrier between the device and android. For everyday tasks like messaging, phone, scrolling contacts etc iPhone beats it for speed and usability hands down. However, NOVA 3 blew me away and runs smooth as can be. Sadly this isn't enough to keep me so Its been short lived and maybe i'll return when android runs more efficiently and definitely needs to be smoother on devices.
antdawe said:
Hi all.
I am slightly disappointed with my galaxy s3.
I recently made the switch from owning all iPhones since their release. IMO, iPhone never really did enough to compete with the rest of the field so I switched. How wrong was I!
I must admit I am sick to death with having to go into task manager to close apps and clear ram. If I don't do this pushing the home button from an app will result in the device hanging.
For a device that has some much power under the hood its really frustrating to see they haven't really made a good barrier between the device and android. For everyday tasks like messaging, phone, scrolling contacts etc iPhone beats it for speed and usability hands down. However, NOVA 3 blew me away and runs smooth as can be. Sadly this isn't enough to keep me so Its been short lived and maybe i'll return when android runs more efficiently and definitely needs to be smoother on devices.
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I don't experience any of those problems. Why do you kill tasks and keep clearing RAM? On Android that is a big no-no. Let Android manage all of that on it's own. When you keep killing tasks it has to restart them and that slows things down instead of speeding them up.
If you really want a smooth experience, root your device and install Titanium Backup and freeze all the bloatware that's not needed.
Having owned every iPhone, I can say that my GS3 is much smoother and quicker to respond than any of them ever were.
antdawe said:
Hi all.
I am slightly disappointed with my galaxy s3.
I recently made the switch from owning all iPhones since their release. IMO, iPhone never really did enough to compete with the rest of the field so I switched. How wrong was I!
I must admit I am sick to death with having to go into task manager to close apps and clear ram. If I don't do this pushing the home button from an app will result in the device hanging.
For a device that has some much power under the hood its really frustrating to see they haven't really made a good barrier between the device and android. For everyday tasks like messaging, phone, scrolling contacts etc iPhone beats it for speed and usability hands down. However, NOVA 3 blew me away and runs smooth as can be. Sadly this isn't enough to keep me so Its been short lived and maybe i'll return when android runs more efficiently and definitely needs to be smoother on devices.
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:banghead: u do that next time a little reading will help u to understand
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I understand that forcing processes to close will result in them having to reload again at some point. However, if i do not do this it'll end up a million pieces. If i could take a video of it I would, actually maybe I will tomorrow so maybe guys like yourselves who have had android for long periods maybe able to help me out.
let me give you an example. I open ebay app do some browsing (home button out), look on bbc news website (home button out), click on phone then contacts, wait for 2-3 seconds for it to respond, click on the letter of the first name i want to call again wait a couple of seconds, end the call and press the home button, wait 5 seconds with just my background picture and the square dotted icon which contain the apps.
If i clear the ram all of the above run smooth again.
On S-Voice disable the option to lunch S-Voice with a double press on the home button. This option causes home button lag.
Don't kill processes. This option that Samsung gave us on stock rom is terrible. You shouldn't use it, never.
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juliano_q said:
On S-Voice disable the option to lunch S-Voice with a double press on the home button. This option causes home button lag.
Don't kill processes. This option that Samsung gave us on stock rom is terrible. You shouldn't use it, never.
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Any suggestions on what to about the lagging?
I have disabled s-voice as It was dreadful.
Thanks
antdawe said:
Any suggestions on what to about the lagging?
I have disabled s-voice as It was dreadful.
Thanks
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Root. Remove bloatware and use a 3rd party launcher like Nova or Apex.
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Root. Remove bloatware and use a 3rd party launcher like Nova or Apex.
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Thanks
I will try this
More tips.
Go into Settings>Developer Options
Set all of the animation scales to 0.5x instead of 1x
Then turn on Force 2D GPU rendering.
You mention pressing home button to leave apps. Doing this leaves them running, true 'multitasking'. That's fine, but if it's not an app you'll be using for a while hold down the back button to close it. Alternatively, hold down the home button to bring up running and previously used apps, either swipe away the ones you don't want or remove all. This is better than clearing ram because the stuff that should be running still will be, but the apps you've been using won't.
Also, there is no need to root and debloat if you don't want. You just need to learn to manage better like i said above. Android is a different kettle of fish to ios, there is a bit of a learning curve, but it's worth sticking with.
Jelly bean (Android 4.1) will also sort out your lag woes with scrolling etc.
antdawe said:
Any suggestions on what to about the lagging?
I have disabled s-voice as It was dreadful.
Thanks
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I suggest to install a good stock rom (last JB DLI6 is very good), root and remove bloatware.
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Baldilocks said:
More tips.
Go into Settings>Developer Options
Set all of the animation scales to 0.5x instead of 1x
Then turn on Force 2D GPU rendering.
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Nice, you got both S3 and HOX I see... lucky you!
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My s3 is up since 14 days without a single reboot and seriously i haven't experienced lag yet.
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Nosterius said:
My s3 is up since 14 days without a single reboot and seriously i haven't experienced lag yet.
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Don't ever post pics of Your IMEI, that is BAD. I would remove it ASAP. Don't tell anyone unless it is generic or all 0's
Basically don't use it like IOS. If you want a ridiculously fast UI, download holo launcher HD, or any other launcher with swipe up, and set swipe up to open recent apps. Then put your most used apps on the home screen and a widget that tells you the date and weather. Then just do everything from the notification bar. With this set up you can basically do everything with swipe down, swipe up, and press icon. Don't even have to scroll since most of the settings you need are in the notification tray but their is a settings button available 24 7 if you need it.
In my opinion, Android high-end phones are not made to be used with a stock rom/kernel/settings.
When someone asks me "What phone should I get?" I analyse the person's profile to answer that.
If he/she is a basic user, that want internet, email, games, etc... = iPhone.
If he/she is a curious person that wants to squeeze max power out of his/her phone = GS3.
So, the best thing that you can do, is to pick a custom rom that you like, flash, root and customize. That's what Android is made for. :good:
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My s3 is up since 14 days without a single reboot and seriously i haven't experienced lag yet.
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Thankyou for your IMEI number
Root switch to omega V13.1 ICS. Two thumbs up. Btw, i also came from the iphone range but i gotta to admit that S3 is indeed great. There are tons od things to be explore on the s3,pal.
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More tips.
Go into Settings>Developer Options
Set all of the animation scales to 0.5x instead of 1x
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Thank you sir, i am not the OP but this is great :good:
Hello LG G5 users , feel free to talk here about anything related to the LG G5 :good:
Thread Rules
1. Respect the others
2. This is an LG G5 thread , do not talk about any other LG phone here.
3. Use appropriate langage.
4. And of course , respect xda rules.
So what do you think about this LG phone ?
Hi guys , thread opened thanks to @KennyG123 , now that the G5 is out and available for sale feel free to share your experience in this discussion thread.
I will update it later with infos , reviews , battery tests..etc.
Enjoy
This is my first impression of the G5 and I'm sure once the stock and custom roms start rolling out I will have a much better experience with my phone. I picked up my new LG G5 a hour ago from my local Sprint retailer and I have already run into a few problems that kind of bother me about the phone. I switched from my Nexus 6 to this phone and I would have to say I do enjoy the feel of the phone and the fact of it being smaller and easier to hold. This is the only good thing I have really noticed about the phone so far though. The volume rocker on the left side of the phone seems very strange and would be much more ergonomic with it remaining on the back or on the right side to be easily accessible with the thumb. The G5 does not have an app drawer with the current software even though there were leaks saying that they were actually going to end up adding the app drawer for this phone. The software seems as if it went for a more Apple style design with a more vivid color scheme. I ended up looking through some of the apps and there are advertisements in the voicemail app which just seems wrong. I have already ran into a bug which should be expected with any new release of a phone of course and this bug happens when I double tap on a notification on the lock screen it locks the screen instead of opening the application which I really hope wasn't the intended purpose. So far the phone isn't as great as I expected it to be.
@CorruptProfile Thank you very much sir for this first well detailed feedback.
How about other things like the camera , performance ( if you tried any intensive game ) ? Is it buttery smooth or LG 5.0 UX suffer from lags ?
CorruptProfile said:
This is my first impression of the G5 and I'm sure once the stock and custom roms start rolling out I will have a much better experience with my phone. I picked up my new LG G5 a hour ago from my local Sprint retailer and I have already run into a few problems that kind of bother me about the phone. I switched from my Nexus 6 to this phone and I would have to say I do enjoy the feel of the phone and the fact of it being smaller and easier to hold. This is the only good thing I have really noticed about the phone so far though. The volume rocker on the left side of the phone seems very strange and would be much more ergonomic with it remaining on the back or on the right side to be easily accessible with the thumb. The G5 does not have an app drawer with the current software even though there were leaks saying that they were actually going to end up adding the app drawer for this phone. The software seems as if it went for a more Apple style design with a more vivid color scheme. I ended up looking through some of the apps and there are advertisements in the voicemail app which just seems wrong. I have already ran into a bug which should be expected with any new release of a phone of course and this bug happens when I double tap on a notification on the lock screen it locks the screen instead of opening the application which I really hope wasn't the intended purpose. So far the phone isn't as great as I expected it to be.
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Have you checked right? T-Mobile users said that the app drawer is there, like seen in the GUI Official Video (not a leek)
Killua96 said:
Have you checked right? T-Mobile users said that the app drawer is there, like seen in the GUI Official Video (not a leek)
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It is there if you use easy mode on your launcher as far as i know.
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It is there if you use easy mode on your launcher as far as i know.
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Nope, there is a third option shown in the UX 5.0 video and confirmed by T-Mobile users
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk8Zs3Mlbcs
Look at 2:19
I only really play Clash of Clans as far as game intensive on my phone and it ran very smoothly for the little bit that I was on it. The camera is far superior to any phone I have had in the past and the quality is great. The option for the regular launcher with an app drawer does not exist on my device which is no problem since I do not like the launcher in general and the Google Now Launcher is far superior to LG's. The biggest problem I have started to see with the device now is the fact the battery is weak as can be. I'm not sure if there isn't enough data collected yet to give an accurate estimate on how long the battery will last. I took the first screenshot of the battery usage before I used any high usage applications and it already was showing that my phone would last an hour and 47 minutes when it was at 41%. I would add screenshots to this but, I don't have over 10 posts yet so that isn't possible so I sent them to @Soufiansky so he can post them instead.
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I only really play Clash of Clans as far as game intensive on my phone and it ran very smoothly for the little bit that I was on it. The camera is far superior to any phone I have had in the past and the quality is great. The option for the regular launcher with an app drawer does not exist on my device which is no problem since I do not like the launcher in general and the Google Now Launcher is far superior to LG's. The biggest problem I have started to see with the device now is the fact the battery is weak as can be. I'm not sure if there isn't enough data collected yet to give an accurate estimate on how long the battery will last. I took the first screenshot of the battery usage before I used any high usage applications and it already was showing that my phone would last an hour and 47 minutes when it was at 41%. I would add screenshots to this but, I don't have over 10 posts yet so that isn't possible so I sent them to @Soufiansky so he can post them instead.
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Thank you again for the feedback , when i come back home i will post the links you send me in pm
Thanks to @CorruptProfile
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How's the phone size?
I'd be coming from the Nexus 6 which is like a phablet, so I want to know how it feels in the hand?
Mew351 said:
How's the phone size?
I'd be coming from the Nexus 6 which is like a phablet, so I want to know how it feels in the hand?
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It is 5.3" , way smaller than the huge Nexus 6.
Soufiansky said:
It is 5.3" , way smaller than the huge Nexus 6.
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I was going to get the S7 Edge but it's not rootable, so it is a huge deterrent for me
Mew351 said:
I was going to get the S7 Edge but it's not rootable, so it is a huge deterrent for me
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You can wait for the M10 , and for root it will come one day , patience
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You can wait for the M10 , and for root it will come one day , patience
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The M10 is waayyyyy too small for me ;/
Mew351 said:
How's the phone size?
I'd be coming from the Nexus 6 which is like a phablet, so I want to know how it feels in the hand?
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I came from the Nexus 6 as well and honestly I like the size of the G5 it is smaller but not too small in the hand where it feels like you are holding nothing.
Mew351 said:
The M10 is waayyyyy too small for me ;/
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Note 5 ? Nexus 6P ? We're going in an off topic here...
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CorruptProfile said:
I came from the Nexus 6 as well and honestly I like the size of the G5 it is smaller but not too small in the hand where it feels like you are holding nothing.
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What about the module thing ? I saw a lot of issues about it these days
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I don't own a module and I don't really see the purpose of owning one to be completely honest. It's basically just buying add-ons if you prefer having them or not. I enjoy having the naked look of a sleek looking phone without having a bunch of stuff all over it. It really comes down to the person if they want the parts or not and personally I don't the parts won't make the phone any worse and if the modules really just fail then it won't have any overall effect on the performance of the phone itself.
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I don't own a module and I don't really see the purpose of owning one to be completely honest. It's basically just buying add-ons if you prefer having them or not. I enjoy having the naked look of a sleek looking phone without having a bunch of stuff all over it. It really comes down to the person if they want the parts or not and personally I don't the parts won't make the phone any worse and if the modules really just fail then it won't have any overall effect on the performance of the phone itself.
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No i was talking about the stock battery module , you haven't faced any issue ? Because some people were reporting bad screen colors reproduction next to the module , others said it started taking off....etc.
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