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What do you think of the epic so far?

I will have to admit that I have been a HTC WinMo fan boy for the last 6yrs. Wm was not perfect but, it got the job done. Custom roms were good but, they always had bugs. So when I got my EPIC an my first android phone I was blown away. The speed how well everything worked together. I was amazed how people complained about touchwiz. I don't see anything wrong with it. Maybe because I don't know of any better interface. It not as flashy as HTC sense but, it seems fast.
I hear alot of nitpicking here about the phone. They compare stock EPIC roms to Custom roms on other phone. Not realizing that everyone doesn't like the custom rom you love. I don't know of anything being perfect. But, some of the people that bought this phone were expecting more.
I love the phone. I just wanted to know what others think.

I'm amazed by it. Every time I get a spare second, I want to pick it up and play with it.
I really like the design of the phone more than the other Galaxy S variants. The soft touch back reminds me of the EVO, and the screen looks so good sitting there with the phone turned off. Which brings me to my next point:
This screen is so brilliant. I've not noticed any of the issues people complain about. It's gorgeous. HD movies look better on the Epic than any other phone I've seen (EVO and iPhone 4). I constantly want to change my wallpaper.
The speed of this phone is fantastic. It's faster on 2.1 than my EVO is with CM6 (Froyo). I never used sense on my EVO. I actually stuck with touchwiz for a while before I finally installed launcher PRO. Again, Launcher Pro AND Touchwiz are faster than anything I put on my EVO. Menus scroll with no lag at all. Apps open very fast and games are perfect. I didn't like that a lot of games ran slow on the EVO... and some were downright unplayable. I'm a big gamer, so this is important.
The keyboard is pretty convenient. I use swype for most things... like texting, emailing, etc. But I love the keyboard for when I need to type numbers, usernames\passwords, website URLs, etc. I also use it for games\emulators.
All in all, I'm very happy with this phone. It's not for everybody, but it is definitely for me. I've actually made a few iPhone 4 users jealous. They were never jealous of my EVO

I love love love this phone. its deff worth the move after being an iPhone user for 2.5 years. I love the freedom I have to make and customize the phone to my taste vs just having a glass screen with shortcuts all over it. every time I wake my phone I swear I get more and more amazed by the screen quality lol.. the phone is very fast and snappy. the only complaint I seem to suffer from is my battery life =/ .. other than that this is deff an iPhone killer in my eyes.
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I freakin love this phone. So quick and buttery smooth. And it hasn't even gotten froyo yet.
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b1indsided said:
I freakin love this phone. So quick and buttery smooth. And it hasn't even gotten froyo yet.
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yea once it gets froyo, this phone.is gonna be tooo nasty
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surveysays said:
yea once it gets froyo, this phone.is gonna be tooo nasty
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Dude.. when froyo hits this.. its gonna look like the Pillsbury Dough Boy Massacre! This ishow the other phones will look...
http://sickpigs.com/wp-content/potd/doughboy.jpg
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ehh.. it's ok
REally want to see an update for the phone. +1 for the camera and keyboard and 16GB Sd. I still like the Evo but we'll see if that changes.

surveysays said:
yea once it gets froyo, this phone.is gonna be tooo nasty
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Rofl man I can't wait.
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b1indsided said:
Rofl man I can't wait.
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Imagine when we get Gingerbread? Oh wait, we already did!!

I do love some of the necro'd memories. I was still a guest lurker during this post.

Sense UI a possibility on Epic?

Is it possible

Seanc13 said:
Is it possible
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obviously its possible..but no one has released it yet...

A team of people are working on it, but haven't heard from them in a while
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flopez76 said:
A team of people are working on it, but haven't heard from them in a while
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If you are talking about the team I think you are, they said they are waiting for official froyo to do it..

Once official froyo source drops. Things will go more smoothly.. its amazing that our devs here have made the progress they have given the lack of necessity available.
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I was just about to make a thread asking about the development of this Galaxy Sense we heard about last month.

With launcher pro a custom dock and beautiful widgets you can make your homescreens look just like the sense ui if you want it for the ascetics or as a placeholder til it gets ported
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Its funny how much the htc guys hate sense the tw guys want sense. Lol
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mysteryemotionz said:
Its funny how much the htc guys hate sense the tw guys want sense. Lol
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I love sense! i was HTC all the way. diamond/hero/evo

hayabusa1300cc said:
I love sense! i was HTC all the way. diamond/hero/evo
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Hero/evo/epic I ran cm6 on both htc devices. I rather have a pure aosp. I don't like none of the manufacturers gui's.
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The Hero was the first android phone I ever owned, I loved sense on it because there were so many ways to customize it to my liking, tw just sucks, I want to go back to the evo so I can go back to the sense + froyo + CM6, but the epic's keyboard and excellent performance are keeping me here

mysteryemotionz said:
Hero/evo/epic I ran cm6 on both htc devices. I rather have a pure aosp. I don't like none of the manufacturers gui's.
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Yeah I know alot of people like it pure google.
but to me it just isnt appealing or as functional.
the hero was my first android device so I did get spoiled
with htc sense. Just to my likings that it brought a better
experience and refresh to the Android interface. Widgets and apps.
I prefer it over TW. There are just a few things I prefer TW
over sense per say.

I think the rom was released and then discontinued for the galaxy s i9000 due to the devs having muliple issues that they were not able to resolve. Link to post --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=877902

The only thing I ever liked about Sense UI were the widgets and the Weather effects.
With LauncherPro, you can get pretty much identical widgets, and then Beautiful Widgets will give you the same look of the clock widget. Plus, LauncherPro is infinitely customizable and you can do pretty much anything with it....
Sense UI has always been extremely laggy and slow in all the times I've used it, as a ROM port on my Nexus, and also stock on the Evo/Hero.
Wouldn't mind trying it out again on my Epic though!

The older version of fancy widget is also a wonderful alternative to the sense clock/weather widget.
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Seanc13 said:
The Hero was the first android phone I ever owned, I loved sense on it because there were so many ways to customize it to my liking, tw just sucks, I want to go back to the evo so I can go back to the sense + froyo + CM6, but the epic's keyboard and excellent performance are keeping me here
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lolwut.
10chars

Launcher 7,it no longer runs in background...

The dev has fixed a majority of the battery drain by fixing this issue of the launcher always running in the background,now it is at 0% cpu and 7-8mb of RAM being used...
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Thanks for the heads up. I really like playing with this launcher. I was actually able to convince a coworker I managed to hack the samsung focus wp7 rom onto my epic on april 1st. It worked right up until he saw the android market icon

Thanks for that man, i didnt know
ecooce said:
The dev has fixed a majority of the battery drain by fixing this issue of the launcher always running in the background,now it is at 0% cpu and 7-8mb of RAM being used...
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I've got some real nice HQ tiles,Ill post this weekend...
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That'd be nice. I found out he hasn't updated the free one in a while, even though the paid one is supposed to be donate only. Oh well, its still nice
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Oh,I didn't even notice that,that's a shame,I've been on the donate version since day one ,but I flash so much now I rarely use it atm.I really like the look of the tiles,I know android UI's are better in most aspects,but I like simple and clean...
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ecooce said:
Oh,I didn't even notice that,that's a shame,I've been on the donate version since day one ,but I flash so much now I rarely use it atm.I really like the look of the tiles,I know android UI's are better in most aspects,but I like simple and clean...
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Ya, I don't want a wp7, but I keep coming back to launcher7.
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zanderman112 said:
Ya, I don't want a wp7, but I keep coming back to launcher7.
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I played w/ it for a little bit and felt that it wasn't very customizable and if THATS how WP7 is, boy is microsoft in for some pain.. hell, the iPhone is more customizable than WP7 appears to be (if this launcher closely mimics the customizability of WP7 very well)
just sayin'

Sense 3.0

Do you think custom ROMs will allow us to have HTC's Sense UI 3.0 on this phone?

Oh... boy... here we go.. i admire you for having the balls to ask about Sense UI in Samsung thread. Hehe. Short answer is NO!!!
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You never know.. The original SGS has turned out a terrific developers phone so if the SGS2 has unlocked bootloaders i cant see why not
If htc sense is that important though just wait from the sensation

epsix said:
Oh... boy... here we go.. i admire you for having the balls to ask about Sense UI in Samsung thread. Hehe. Short answer is NO!!!
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Its already on the SGS to a fashion... no working data or wifi though yet lol

Guitarfreak26 said:
Its already on the SGS to a fashion... no working data or wifi though yet lol
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Yeah, half baked.
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I'd love to have it, with the recent reports showing the horsepower that it have coupled with Sense 3.0 that would be the perfect phone to have

If people want the HTC Sense experience then they should look at a HTC Phone. Although a Port is possible, its very time consuming and by the time someone actually port's it over with all the drivers working, your device will be close to the yearly refresh and you will want the next best thing. This will leave the developer in a limbo where his efforts didnt truly pay off.

dhruvmalik said:
If people want the HTC Sense experience then they should look at a HTC Phone. Although a Port is possible, its very time consuming and by the time someone actually port's it over with all the drivers working, your device will be close to the yearly refresh and you will want the next best thing. This will leave the developer in a limbo where his efforts didnt truly pay off.
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It's not possible, Galaxy S is half baked, Nexus S also try, half baked. Samsung uses totally different structure on android Nexus S can't even port TouchWiz and its the same manufacturer. I would love to get S II spec wise it blows the Sensation out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1041405
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Get a HTC and you will have sense and you don't have to worry or stress about being ported or not.
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onbacardi said:
Get a HTC and you will have sense and you don't have to worry or stress about being ported or not.
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Yes sir, sorry sir
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Why would u want Sense on Samsung?
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Motola Atrix
Samsung Captivate - CM7 1.2 ghz
Motorola Backflip - CM6

epsix said:
Yes sir, sorry sir
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Your dismissed
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rjayflo said:
Why would u want Sense on Samsung?
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Motola Atrix
Samsung Captivate - CM7 1.2 ghz
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I see you have a Motorola Atrix 4G. What do you think about it? I'm in doubt between Atrix, S II and Sensation.
Thank you!

Ugh, how can people even like Sense. It is the worst android UI out of all the custom ones out there.

ryude said:
Ugh, how can people even like Sense. It is the worst android UI out of all the custom ones out there.
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Probably because of the animations. I do HATE the sense dock :/

ryude said:
Ugh, how can people even like Sense. It is the worst android UI out of all the custom ones out there.
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Id say its all about taste. Personally I think motorola's UI is the worst, followed closely by the apple wannabe touchwiz. Funny, I actually hated sense as well at first, but now that im using it for a while, I LOVE IT.
Also, its because htc has added soooo much functionality, like finding/wiping/ringing from anywhere(laptop) incase its lost, or stolen, etc. Plus auto-backup of messages, apprx 100 very useful widgets, plus may apps wich save you a lot of time if you had to download one by one. Basically, its a complete package that looks good and offers functionality that no other manufacturer can even come close to, especially being built in from start. no headaches. I myself wish it could be ported but I doubt, especially with how "involved" its gotten lately

cristianomc said:
I see you have a Motorola Atrix 4G. What do you think about it? I'm in doubt between Atrix, S II and Sensation.
Thank you!
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I had a Galaxy S, then Atrix and now Inspire. Next I'm buying Galaxy S II because the bootlogger is unlocked and I want the light weight, dual core processor power and video enhancements.
The Inspire is amazing. I like it far better than the Atrix because I can put custom roms on it. I was able to root the Atrix and do a few modifications but it was very limited. I strongly recommend the Inspire.
The Sensation is locked down as is the Atrix. If you want a good out of the box phone Atrix is as good as you get until the Galaxy S II arrives. Sensation will be great but probably about the same as the Galaxy S II.
It is hard to recommend a phone without knowing what you do with your phone. For me the unlocked boot logger is the difference between buying and not buying.

Personally I prefer Sense.I think that Samsung have basically copied the iPhone in design and UI. If someone could remove the native Samsung bloat and add sense, all would be good in the world(for me at least)

ragingredbull said:
Personally I prefer Sense.I think that Samsung have basically copied the iPhone in design and UI. If someone could remove the native Samsung bloat and add sense, all would be good in the world(for me at least)
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Couldn't have put it better, dude. trouble is, can we have the best of both worlds?
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I think we can. If enough people that have bought a SGS2 ask for sense then I am sure someone(developer) will be willing to design it for SGS2. From what I have seen of custom roms so far, I think that there are some more than capable developers out there that could do it. If I could write code I definitely would(perhaps I should start learning. The only question is can an old dog(me) learn new tricks?????)

Photon 4g

Ive hated motorola since I had the abomination that was the rokr. theyre phones have always screwed me over sooner or later on the software side, but this phone is calling to me.. its nice.. idk I think there's something wrong with me. I wouldnt get it over the gs2... but id definitely consider it. What do you guys think?

Hey I dont like motorola also!! But the photon looks like it kicks ass. i would consider it but my upgrades not till may and they're gonna have a better phone by then...
Sywped from mah Supasonic!

I'm getting it I never want another Samsung phone unless the dev community is past amazing
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I would not get it. The community is so anti development!!!!

jamice4u said:
I would not get it. The community is so anti development!!!!
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Moto dont have good dev community?
I was thinking that droids get alot of roms and cyanogens.Its probably just for their latest locked down phones.Have Atrix been rooted yet?
i dont like moto eather but Atrix was nice and screen on it almost as nice as my s amoled

To me, it just seems pretty basic. Not really feature packed.

hayabusa1300cc said:
To me, it just seems pretty basic. Not really feature packed.
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That statement right there means you need to go into a store and play with one. It has a ton of features built in.
@OP: I share your exact same sentiment. I'm waiting for the within, and I hate motorola, but this phone is definitely enticing me. I feel like I'm under some sort of spell lol. The webtop alone is enough for me to consider it. It would be so nice to just throw it on the dock when I get home and fire up netflix or hulu. And have all my texts come through my tv. Ugh...its so tempting.
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squshy 7 said:
That statement right there means you need to go into a store and play with one. It has a ton of features built in.
@OP: I share your exact same sentiment. I'm waiting for the within, and I hate motorola, but this phone is definitely enticing me. I feel like I'm under some sort of spell lol. The webtop alone is enough for me to consider it. It would be so nice to just throw it on the dock when I get home and fire up netflix or hulu. And have all my texts come through my tv. Ugh...its so tempting.
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EXACTLY!!! The features on the photon are killer! WORLD PHONE?? GSM? The more I think about it lol
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Feels laggy, specially for being a dual core processor device. Screen is pretty good, nothing to write home about though sadly. Just using it for half hour made me appreciate my nexus way more, I wouldn't grtbit unless iI knew dev community was huge and custom roms were outout
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The only interesting thing for me is has a sim slot, but nothing else to brag about.
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There isn't that's the thing lol other than the docking features and a few other things there's really nothing amazing about it.. but it still appeals to be for some huge reason. When the time comes to upgrade I'm gonna play with the photon first, then the within.
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Will continue to wait it out for the GS2

Honestly were at the point there's nothing huge about any phone that comes out
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afive720 said:
Feels laggy, specially for being a dual core processor device. Screen is pretty good, nothing to write home about though sadly. Just using it for half hour made me appreciate my nexus way more, I wouldn't grtbit unless iI knew dev community was huge and custom roms were outout
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They say it is Moto Blur that causes the Motorola devices to be laggy. Which is 100% true. Look at the Atrix

Korey_Nicholson said:
They say it is Moto Blur that causes the Motorola devices to be laggy. Which is 100% true. Look at the Atrix
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Yea it's the ui install another launcher and you'll see
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MOTO has always had horrible UI's. That was true even for their basic flip phones. I had the MOTO KRKZR years ago with Sprint... and the lag was awful.