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This phone is frickin AWESOME!!

I don't know that I've had something THIS nice before. I've had an iPhone for a while and the app store is nice but this phone with the Android system is really neat.
I've got Call Recorder working that records both sides of any call I want. It'll even upload to google or evernote if I want.
The pictures and videos it takes are great.
The screen is great, the blacks are black. I love it!!

i am stuck deciding between an asus laptop with bluray and 1gb gfx card or a SGSII... this is a dilemma, for real

Been lurking for a while and finally pulled the trigger few hours ago from Clove. Better be worth all those pennies. My 2-year old Magic got toooo slow to be usable
Hoping the Airmail shipping will let me avoid the tax man when it gets to Canada

These both devices are very different frm each others. How you can replace a laptop with a mobile in ur pocket
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Little Dragon said:
i am stuck deciding between an asus laptop with bluray and 1gb gfx card or a SGSII... this is a dilemma, for real
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mm, good to know
what app are you using to do phone call recording?
I have yet to find one, let us know.

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Swapped from the atrix and never looked back. Getting 7 hours standby per 10% of battery so I'm lucky I don't have the battery drain issue. Though having said that, the screen really sucks up power when you've got it on.
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thanhson87 said:
mm, good to know
what app are you using to do phone call recording?
I have yet to find one, let us know.
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Also looking for recording app
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Call Recorder by Killer Mobile was just updated to work with this phone. Use profile C when setting it up (I didn't know so this will save you some time). It is a really cool program!!

I'm completely in love with this phone, Im so glad I ordered it from the UK
Dennis
Montreal, Canada

I got my phone today and I'm loving it!!!!!!!!!!!! I have no banding, but the screen is a bit pixelated but if you keep it at a distance you won't see it

LOL, yeah really amazing computer iin mobile mod

Wait...a laptop and phone are DIFFERENT?? So I wont be able to put my laptop in my pocket?? thx, noob
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These both devices are very different frm each others. How you can replace a laptop with a mobile in ur pocket
Dear first check ur aim
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I feel the same way as all of you. Just got the SGS2 Friday night and absolutely love it. I rooted it within a few hours as I wanted to Titanium backup but for now I am totally happy on stock. The phone is absolutely brilliant. I love surfing webpages now, no more lag even if I choose to play a flash video within the page. Video recording is amazing too. I was a little nervous reading about issues people were having but I have experienced none.
I also love that you can turn the soft keys off or extend how long they are on for. Samsung really thought things through on the design of this phone.

Man, I can't wait to get my hands on mine! Why did it have to be a bank holiday in UK today?!

Can't wait for mine to get here. Possible be happy with a phone for awhile...
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I received my SGSII from handtec yesterday i really like it its my first android phone me previous phone was satio which was horrible but i loved it camera

Is your old NB good enough to soldier on? If so buy this as you'll find it will replace your NB for all but the heaviest of functions. Me I'm caught between this and anAcer Revo 100. I'm worried they will stop selling the revo....

Word of advice, don't update to KE7. Stick to KE2, hard reset and freeze the bloat. You will get good battery life.
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Just received new market

I'm not sure if I'm late to the party or early, but I just got the new market on my totally stock, gingerbread g2, woot!
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Funny, I just got the new market pushed to my phone today as well. Running a Desire Z on ATT with CM 7.1... Weird thing is, I have never gotten any market updates in the past...

my market updated after the first launch of the app when i flashed the rooted 2.3 release today.

Market now looks suspiciously similar to a windoz mobile layout ..
hmmmm

I'm honestly not a fan of the new Market. I find that the application is slow/heavy to use... The other one I good just blaze through this one seems like I have to wait.

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I'm honestly not a fan of the new Market. I find that the application is slow/heavy to use... The other one I good just blaze through this one seems like I have to wait.
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Agreed. Plus on other devices like the Nook Color (Encore) it has caused all kinds of problem getting access to certain applications. Device restrictions based on requirements has really sucked.

It's just buggy. I updated an app this morning and it still says update, and sometimes the update button doesn't show up at all.
The updated market needs an update.
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Just got it today as well, I like it, the old one look so plain
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Were not saying it's not. Were just identifying flaws in it's performance. It's not as smooth scrolling or even loading information/pictures fast as it did with the older version.
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Just got it today as well, I like it, the old one look so plain
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I'm honestly not a fan of the new Market. I find that the application is slow/heavy to use... The other one I good just blaze through this one seems like I have to wait.
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This one seems just as quick to me. The first boot takes a bit but its good after the first launch.

I didn't like the market the first time I got but now its grown on me. I thought it was so slow.
Now I cant live without it.
You'll all get use to it, don't worry.
Dave

I'm just using it cause I don't have a choice. My alternative at the moment is to push my app from the online store instead.
Hopefully there will be an other update shortly to address the latency issues and FC that are still quite frequent with it.

Got it pushed to me weeks ago. HATED it at first but have forced myself to like it since were not gonna have any choice but to use it. One thing that is a huge new improvement, is the "new" top free and paid. Cause as we all know the top lists never ever change and are always gonna have facebook google maps and gmail on top. With the "new" sections, you get to see popular apps that now don't have to have over 50000000 downloads to get some exposure
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Random observation..

This is a general thread, so I'm putting this here, so shoot me... On thing I noticed with a lot of people, they never keep their apps updated.. And it's not a matter of bad updates, it's just they don't update... I think it's funny and then they complain about lack of features! How many people here do that? Haha
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Lol, I constantly update mines.
Evo SHIFT

I update mine all the time, but my mom, sister, dad and handful of friends never update theirs and I always tell them.. "that's why your facebook app 'sucks'"

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I update mine all the time, but my mom, sister, dad and handful of friends never update theirs and I always tell them.. "that's why your facebook app 'sucks'"
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Haha, my gf is the same way
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Mines updated daily or at least checked for updates, my gf never updates and it drives me crazy lol
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My wifey too. Says she hates learning new features or having the popup changelogs. When she's not looking I update em for her
^ Shift Faced

yeah my dad made me root his phone, and installed mikrom on it, but then i got a shift also, and it was 2.3.3 and he just switched with me without caring about root. haha

thronnos said:
This is a general thread, so I'm putting this here, so shoot me... On thing I noticed with a lot of people, they never keep their apps updated.. And it's not a matter of bad updates, it's just they don't update... I think it's funny and then they complain about lack of features! How many people here do that? Haha
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I generally set mine to check for updates automatically, and ask before installing . But most people I come across that do not update say " it's because I'm used to it the way it is" . They either do not want to have to learn something new, or they do not want to change the set up. They basically don't want to leave their comfort zone.

I've got mixed feelings about updates. I flash different versions so often I enevetably get the most current roms but I like to see a changelog first if I'm just at the my Apps screen. If there is nothing that makes me want to update then I stick with what I have for good reason. I hate Pandora now because it got worse with every update. Vplayer was once free but they snuck an expiration in with an update. Facebook has always been a hopes raiser and then a let down until this recent format they have now. It still sucks just not as bad. Tubemate and craigslist update so darn often I delete them until I need to use them. Figure that way it really feels like an update and I got to skip a few things they broke fixing something else.
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yamaford said:
I've got mixed feelings about updates. I flash different versions so often I enevetably get the most current roms but I like to see a changelog first if I'm just at the my Apps screen. If there is nothing that makes me want to update then I stick with what I have for good reason. I hate Pandora now because it got worse with every update. Vplayer was once free but they snuck an expiration in with an update. Facebook has always been a hopes raiser and then a let down until this recent format they have now. It still sucks just not as bad. Tubemate and craigslist update so darn often I delete them until I need to use them. Figure that way it really feels like an update and I got to skip a few things they broke fixing something else.
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Yeah tubemate has frequent updates, mostly because youtube is making it harder for them to download from it, and since it keeps getting removed from the market for youtube terms of service violations, every time there is an update, they change the apps internal name. This makes it install two different versions, and we have to go find the old one in settings and uninstall it, which is a pain. Oh well, the app is amazing enough to deserve it. It has had so many updates, that I've never had it not correctly work.

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Yeah tubemate has frequent updates, mostly because youtube is making it harder for them to download from it, and since it keeps getting removed from the market for youtube terms of service violations, every time there is an update, they change the apps internal name. This makes it install two different versions, and we have to go find the old one in settings and uninstall it, which is a pain. Oh well, the app is amazing enough to deserve it. It has had so many updates, that I've never had it not correctly work.
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Thanks for this, it explains a lot.
^ Shift Faced

Any issues on LTE Note 10.1

Hey guys & gurls,
Getting my Note 10.1 LTE tomorrow, and I'm just wondering if there are any issues that I should be aware of before turning the great device into an even greater one with the help of everyone here.
Any info would be great.
Thanks,
Evil.

Nobody has anything to tell me?
Cheers,
Evil.

there arent any issues for note 10.1 so you should not be worry about anything

Yep, in Australia all I can find is the 16Gb version of the LTE(4G) model... This is too small, I need at least 32Gb...:crying:

No problems using the LTE10.1 here in Germany either. Apart from it being addictive. And the disruption to meetings while folks check out the handwriting to text.... or in my case, scrawl to text.
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gpfx said:
No problems using the LTE10.1 here in Germany either. Apart from it being addictive. And the disruption to meetings while folks check out the handwriting to text.... or in my case, scrawl to text.
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Haha yes I can see this being an issue for me too but thats ok. Atleast it will take the directoes mind off of them loosing monwy atm lol.
Thanks guys for your input.
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Its a great device but it still a real shame that the only ROM available for it is this one.
Darkman [ROM][STOCK][4.1.2][BMC3] ★★N8020★★ Stock Rooted Busybox Deodexed (CWM) [12/05/2013]
Still I use this thing at Uni for lecture notes, student admin type stuff and in campus emails and I cannot imagine studying without it... Its priceless and gets a lot of attention especially from iPad (iPoo??) owners... very gratifying...
Nobleskill

There's 4.2 and 4.3 versions out now, gonna try them out tomorrow, just hesitating about the network apns and how to enter them manually, never had to look at this before.

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There's 4.2 and 4.3 versions out now, gonna try them out tomorrow, just hesitating about the network apns and how to enter them manually, never had to look at this before.
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I'm sure there is a free app to help with this.. apn.. something something.. search in play and I'm sure it would be there..
Well actually I couldn't help myself.. this will back up and then restore your apn..
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.APNBackupRestore
Its free too and highly rated so should be fine.
Ill look into flashing 2.3 tomorrow so will update on how that apps plays out for me but don't forget your trlco can help too. Customer support should be able to txt you the settings and once the message is opened it auto fills the setting for you. We used to do it for customers back in thenso surely even the telco themselves should have an app that solves it??
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[Q] Galaxy S4 - excellent choice!

I've had my first S4 for 7 days. Needed 3 hard resets in the first week - UI freezes, hangs etc. Took it back to Telstra, confirmed bad hardware and gave me a new phone. Second handset has been fantastic - fast, smooth, stable.
Most Samsung features work pretty well - drama shot for junior sports coaching is an excellent idea. Love the fact that I can upgrade storage via SD card, link with Dropbox and can swap the battery for higher capacity if needs be. No need as yet - heavy use and my battery lasts more than 10 hours.
If you experience any interface issues, get the handset swapped: probably just a rare lemon. Thanks to everyone who responded on this thread.
Initial issues: features are unstable (gestures, air view, smart scroll, interface and keyboard hangs).
Now I definitely don't regret this new phone having used many different types over the years (Blackberry, HTC TiTan Windows mobile, iPhone 3, iPhone 4, now Android).

Send it back to Telstra for a replacement
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went in to Telstra today - they confirmed something wrong with the old handset, so got myself a new handset. will see how this one performs.

LOL, a new sd card won't enhance performance btw...
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Hangs for me too on the AT&T S4, stock rom, unrooted.

mart-xda said:
went in to Telstra today - they confirmed something wrong with the old handset, so got myself a new handset. will see how this one performs.
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Should be fine. No issues what so ever with mine on Optus - rooted and remove all Optus craps.

Of course it will. When you have all your music, pictures and some data sitting on a slow device (like an old sd card), then indexing slows down (picture gallery, videos, music. map data). Like any IT system, a fast phone will be slowed down by the slowest link - if that bottleneck is the sd card, then it needs to be remediated.

That is the reason why I did not get the S4. To new technology for me to mess with.
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Good news so far - the new handset is working nicely, no hangups/freezes as yet. :thumbup:
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mart-xda said:
Good news so far - the new handset is working nicely, no hangups/freezes as yet. :thumbup:
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If this is the case then please change the title of your thread, this distracts new users or get this thread close ASAP.
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Akhil said:
If this is the case then please change the title of your thread, this distracts new users or get this thread close ASAP.
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Will definitely update the thread title to more accurately reflect my experience with the device. But surely I need more than 3 hours for the device to prove itself??
Flash performance, and SW performance degrades over time, so I'm giving this phone 48 hours to prove it's stable, before changing my mind.
I'm not convinced yet, but at least the signs are positive in the first 3 hours.

Akhil said:
If this is the case then please change the title of your thread, this distracts new users or get this thread close ASAP.
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Of course I will, once satisfied this was just a bad piece of hardware one-off. But performance degraded over time, I will post updates over the weekend and hopefully change this title to "satisfied" on Sunday (ie 48 hours to ensure it was just an anomaly)

Yep, i think you got a lemon
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If this is the case then please change the title of your thread, this distracts new users or get this thread close ASAP.
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24 hours after exchanging the handset, I must say this one is much more stable and I have confidence in my choice again.Hopefully it continues to please and there's no freeze. 24 hours now of smooth use, no hangups/freezes.
But, the native email app crashes every now and then, only while checking Exchange emails. Anybody else seeing that?

mart-xda said:
24 hours after exchanging the handset, I must say this one is much more stable and I have confidence in my choice again.Hopefully it continues to please and there's no freeze. 24 hours now of smooth use, no hangups/freezes.
But, the native email app crashes every now and then, only while checking Exchange emails. Anybody else seeing that?
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Product of China LOL. Just kiddin.
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GT-i9500 do not by this pc of crap
worst in a history
freezing, overheating , restart this **** cost $700
kiss may back Samsung with your Exynos flag on your hand
DO NOT BY Galaxy S4 PHONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

devles said:
worst in a history
freezing, overheating , restart this **** cost $700
kiss may back Samsung with your Exynos flag on your hand
DO NOT BY Galaxy S4 PHONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Return it. With new technology comes unseen problems.
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mart-xda said:
I've had my first S4 for 7 days. Needed 3 hard resets in the first week - UI freezes, hangs etc. Took it back to Telstra, confirmed bad hardware and gave me a new phone. Second handset has been fantastic - fast, smooth, stable.
Most Samsung features work pretty well - drama shot for junior sports coaching is an excellent idea. Love the fact that I can upgrade storage via SD card, link with Dropbox and can swap the battery for higher capacity if needs be. No need as yet - heavy use and my battery lasts more than 10 hours.
If you experience any interface issues, get the handset swapped: probably just a rare lemon. Thanks to everyone who responded on this thread.
Initial issues: features are unstable (gestures, air view, smart scroll, interface and keyboard hangs).
Now I definitely don't regret this new phone having used many different types over the years (Blackberry, HTC TiTan Windows mobile, iPhone 3, iPhone 4, now Android).
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in my sammy experience u will live with all of that bugs until sell it to get new phone Unfortunately :|
thr s just one way to enjoy stronge hardware of samsung > use another software; change rom and kernel
so u must forget about all smart feature, that best of them are motions. But u will have fast phone without any lag
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