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.
Sent from my GT-N7000 using xda premium
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
mcatt66 said:
i know they said ICS in Q1 but have they released a tentative date?. .
any ideas? .or patterns with samsung?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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!
wabz said:
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.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.
airwater9 said:
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.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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!
BeamMeUpStreaky said:
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!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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!
Sent from my GT-N7000 using XDA App
Ryanscool said:
Ics should fix the spen problem, ics has stylus input already built in.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.!!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
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!!
Related
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.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
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.
Sent from my LT15i using XDA App
iead1 said:
I'm not sure I know what you mean by "laggy"?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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...
iead1 said:
If you're going to complain about a button, I'd recommend the awful power button. It's my biggest complaint about the phone.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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).
hush66 said:
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).
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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
prathaban said:
You can use the same widget to reboot as well if you are rooted.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.
whocancatchme said:
And i'm glad to finally haver something that note everybody have.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah, this is something good to brag about! Plus, there isnt any phone that captures better pictures than arc!
Sent from my LT15i using XDA Premium App
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.
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.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I am using whatever came with Arc. I didn't check the class but it is 16GB card.
kitsVA said:
I am using whatever came with Arc. I didn't check the class but it is 16GB card.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Class 2, the lowest
By the way how can we know the class we had of mscard ?
Sent from my LT15i using XDA Premium App
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.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.
Hey there,
I know that the Nexus 4 is an aweome phone...
But I took some pictures recently and the quality is Okay.
I am coming from a One X, and we had a Camera Mod that made the pictures awesome.
I was wondering if we could see a similar mod coming on the Nexus 4?
Here are some pictures that I took
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
As you can see, it's just okay... I'd say below average...
I'm not complaining, it's a $299 phone and I'm happy with it... Just think that some tweaks or mods could make it better
Nice ride
Im hoping that some like the sensation 4g camera mod comes out, that would be nice
M2oSa said:
Hey there,
I know that the Nexus 4 is an aweome phone...
But I took some pictures recently and the quality is Okay.
I am coming from a One X, and we had a Camera Mod that made the pictures awesome.
I was wondering if we could see a similar mod coming on the Nexus 4?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
As someone pointed out to me, HTC, Samsung, etc. and their respective "skins" (Sense, TouchWiz) are what pack those image capturing features. Google has much less invested into the camera scene than say, HTC with their "ImageSense" technology.
Could Google fix this? I suppose, though I don't know if they will. I've pondered the same questions as yourself.
My N4 is still on backorder, though I've been wondering what affect using something like CameraZoom FX would have. The N4's camera hardware is top notch, it's the software that's lacking. Maybe an app fixes that some, maybe not (I've yet to try).
Another thought is download Snapseed (used it, love it). I would think the stock N4 camera software + Snapseed would yield pleasant photos (but again, I do not have mine yet and am unable to perform any of these tests).
yea camera could be a bit better.
munchy_cool said:
Nice ride
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks
stefan.buddle said:
Im hoping that some like the sensation 4g camera mod comes out, that would be nice
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Oh yeah, I had on my Sensation 4G as well, I saw a real improvment !
clayjohn said:
As someone pointed out to me, HTC, Samsung, etc. and their respective "skins" (Sense, TouchWiz) are what pack those image capturing features. Google has much less invested into the camera scene than say, HTC with their "ImageSense" technology.
Could Google fix this? I suppose, though I don't know if they will. I've pondered the same questions as yourself.
My N4 is still on backorder, though I've been wondering what affect using something like CameraZoom FX would have. The N4's camera hardware is top notch, it's the software that's lacking. Maybe an app fixes that some, maybe not (I've yet to try).
Another thought is download Snapseed (used it, love it). I would think the stock N4 camera software + Snapseed would yield pleasant photos (but again, I do not have mine yet and am unable to perform any of these tests).
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Will try some of these apps ! Didn't know about them ! Thanks for the input
sotorious said:
yea camera could be a bit better.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Waaaay better
Check this out:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2039553
There's somebody modding a file for making better videos. Maybe it's the same for modding better photos?
s60mike said:
Check this out:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2039553
There's somebody modding a file for making better videos. Maybe it's the same for modding better photos?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No this is gonna be the same as the nexus 7 video hack, it was 420p to 720p or something like that but it doesn't change anything with taking pictures.
I'm actually pretty happy with the camera, most point and shoot works this way, hell even photos taken from a dslr looks bland without at least light editing.
Better front camera would be nice.
Umm, does anybody know if the is a physical button to use to take pictures?
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
clayjohn said:
As someone pointed out to me, HTC, Samsung, etc. and their respective "skins" (Sense, TouchWiz) are what pack those image capturing features. Google has much less invested into the camera scene than say, HTC with their "ImageSense" technology.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That's tha advantage of HTC and Samsung. They have image enhancing software to make their pictures better.
Sent from my HTC Incredible S using xda premium
I bought the Camera FX yesterday, hope it makes a difference. Will keep you guys posted !
i very much hope this is something that is on Google's list for KLP along with display calibration. those are 2 things that can see further improvements, and would make the Nexus one hell of an overkill phone.
Anubis007 said:
i very much hope this is something that is on Google's list for KLP along with display calibration. those are 2 things that can see further improvements, and would make the Nexus one hell of an overkill phone.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i just rma'd my phone due to weird camera issues. It would launch into camera app and the screen would become unresponsive. strange.
i do know google barely touched the camera and the pictures that come out were pretty untouched. Also as we can see video recording is at a super low bitrate (???? not sure why they would make that decision)
hopefully this update fixes some of the weird issues where the camera constantly autofocuses and the focus ring stays on the picture after you take it
The camera isn't a strong point on the N4. The colors look very washed out.
Google may already know that their image quality isn't the best, thus their interest in the Kodak patent portfolio. It appears as though a number of these patents have already been licensed to other phone manufacturers like Samsung, LG, and Nokia.
and hot damn that LED flash is bright indoors. Most of the indoor shots I take end up people cowering away with the light!
Yeah, the pics I took with flash in the dark just messed the pics up. The flash was too bright or the timing was off.
emailrob said:
and hot damn that LED flash is bright indoors. Most of the indoor shots I take end up people cowering away with the light!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That's one of the things that I'd like to be see fixed with some sort of mod, and I think it'd be reasonable to expect that it wouldn't be so far-fetched that it's not worth someone's time. In other words, I hope it's easy enough to do that someone does it.
Does anyone have any tips for getting the shutter to focus on where you've tapped it, instead of it going berserk and focus-unfocus-focus-unfocus-focus ad nausem?
OP, I highly recommend you take down the pictures with your license plate present and check if the uploader you used to host these pics scrubs meta info (gps coordinates etc). If you uploaded directly from your phone, the meta info is probably still available.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium
get prohdr app. i got the app for my ipod touch 4 which had a crappy camera and it made my pics look awesome. it should help your nexus 4 camera too.
Hey why can't somebody port over HTC one x photo software for the nexus 4? Idk if this is hard or not because I never ported anything so Yea just a suggestion
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
I had a feature on my S 3 that I have no idea whether it was standard or how it was activated. I have tried the same on my friends Nexus 4 and Galaxy Nexus and it does not work so I thought it was a Samsung add-in. But now it also does not work on the S 4.
On my S 3 if I am viewing an email in the gmail app and I slide my thumb on the right most part of the screen up and down it will zoom in and out instead of scrolling. I don't know how this worked on the S 3 but I was unable to figure how to get it to work on the S 4. I can't remember if it worked in other applications, like browser or exchange email but definitely worked in Gmail.
On my S3 I have to set go to Gmail, Menu Button, SETTING, General Settings, Auto-Fit Messages. Then it works with zooming In/Out. Hope this helps as I am sure it should work the same since it is Gmail and not a Samsung App.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
Exactly you need to enable Auto-Fit messages in Gmail settings.
geoldr said:
Exactly you need to enable Auto-Fit messages in Gmail settings.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
RockRatt said:
On my S3 I have to set go to Gmail, Menu Button, SETTING, General Settings, Auto-Fit Messages. Then it works with zooming In/Out. Hope this helps as I am sure it should work the same since it is Gmail and not a Samsung App.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks guys. This is what I was afraid of. Apparently this must be something that only works on the S3. As I mentioned, I have tried it on the Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, and now my S4 and even with the Auto-fit message option checked it will not zoom in and out no matter how much I try. Two finger pinch and zoom works fine. I wonder if there is something in the S3 that enables this. Maybe an accessibility feature?
You might have had some custom ROM with a custom Gmail app. I just realized you were asking for side slide to zoom. That's actually a TW feature as far as I know because only Samsung apps offer this.
geoldr said:
You might have had some custom ROM with a custom Gmail app. I just realized you were asking for side slide to zoom. That's actually a TW feature as far as I know because only Samsung apps offer this.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I don't believe so. I used the method here which is a stock image with root built it. Never did anything else custom to it. I still have the S 3 and it truly works that way. I tried to mimic the settings on the S4 but no luck. If anyone here still has an S3 I'm wondering if they can check. If you slide your finger along the edge of the screen where the scroll bar appears usually, it should zoom in and out.
hamzer11 said:
I don't believe so. I used the method here which is a stock image with root built it. Never did anything else custom to it. I still have the S 3 and it truly works that way. I tried to mimic the settings on the S4 but no luck. If anyone here still has an S3 I'm wondering if they can check. If you slide your finger along the edge of the screen where the scroll bar appears usually, it should zoom in and out.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I also still have an S3, but mine does not do this. That's really odd. I remember there being a setting somewhere in Motion I think. I don't really remember I'll have to take a look at it some more today after work.
geoldr said:
I also still have an S3, but mine does not do this. That's really odd. I remember there being a setting somewhere in Motion I think. I don't really remember I'll have to take a look at it some more today after work.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I will try to make a video of it. I will also try and go through every menu in the S 3. I looked in gesture controls and didn't find anything. Maybe it's an older version of Gmail. Perhaps I should uninstall updates and try?
RockRatt said:
On my S3 I have to set go to Gmail, Menu Button, SETTING, General Settings, Auto-Fit Messages. Then it works with zooming In/Out. Hope this helps as I am sure it should work the same since it is Gmail and not a Samsung App.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
geoldr said:
I also still have an S3, but mine does not do this. That's really odd. I remember there being a setting somewhere in Motion I think. I don't really remember I'll have to take a look at it some more today after work.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
hamzer11 said:
I will try to make a video of it. I will also try and go through every menu in the S 3. I looked in gesture controls and didn't find anything. Maybe it's an older version of Gmail. Perhaps I should uninstall updates and try?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Quoted myself above but for me I had to enable the Auto-Fit and then and only then did the slide to zoom work. This is a Stock Gmail from the play store I missed for colors. Not sure how the pics will turn out while I am sliding to zoom in/out but it is working on my SGS3. again maybe it is something removed from Samsung's Android 4.2.2 but in 4.1.1 it works fine.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
View attachment 1959852
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
RockRatt said:
Quoted myself above but for me I had to enable the Auto-Fit and then and only then did the slide to zoom work. This is a Stock Gmail from the play store I missed for colors. Not sure how the pics will turn out while I am sliding to zoom in/out but it is working on my SGS3. again maybe it is something removed from Samsung's Android 4.2.2 but in 4.1.1 it works fine.
View attachment 1959850View attachment 1959852View attachment 1959853View attachment 1959855View attachment 1959856View attachment 1959857
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thank you for confirming this on S3. I completely forgot that I had factory reset my S3 so I couldn't get the video. It would be nice if someone could figure out the trigger for this. Is it something touch wiz adds, is it a functionality in a particular version of gmail, or is it some setting that we are not finding?
It was a Feature o the S3, Note and Tab 10 that Samsung removed
hamzer11 said:
Thank you for confirming this on S3. I completely forgot that I had factory reset my S3 so I couldn't get the video. It would be nice if someone could figure out the trigger for this. Is it something touch wiz adds, is it a functionality in a particular version of gmail, or is it some setting that we are not finding?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The Edge Slide Zoom feature, as some call it, was actually a feature that Samsung "quietly" put on then took off, partially. (so quietly, I have yet to find a name for it anywhere on Samsung's website, in documentation, and if you contact Samsung Tech Support, either via Chat or at the "Dedicated Galaxy Support Phone Number" you will find they don't even know about it. In fact, I once got into a heated dispute with a "Dedicated Galaxy Support ""TECH"" " because he insisted I had loaded 3rd party software and they could not support me on it. I had to escalate to a supervisor, who confirmed the underling's claim until I firmly asked him to go get a S3 and I'd prove to him it was not 3rd party.)
It was on the S3, Note II, and Note 10.1 Tablet. Sprint removed it from the S3 with the February OTA release of MA6, which I refused until I got so fed up with Sprint, that I switched to AT&T. Much to my chagrin, the AT&T current release still has it. I bought 2 S3s, but got an S4 for myself. Unfortunately the S4 doesn't have it, so I'm hoping someone on here will develop it, like the user below references, except on the S3. Sprint removed it from the Note II in the last update. I don't know about other carriers, and I don't know about the Tablet. I'll be at the AT&T store later this week and will check, and report my findings.
I found it to be so useful myself, it was what pushed me over the edge to renew a 2 Year Phone Cost Subsidy agreement with Sprint, replacing a "Rooted" SII that finally was working, after I got so fed up with Samsung dragging its feet on releasing their last update.
Here are links to others who discuss it, and the only link I've found where Samsung even acknowledges it exists.
CHECK OUT HIS/HER DESCRIPTION:
[MODs][MD4][TW roms][DeOdex] Slide Zoom/ APM/ and APM with Hold Menu to kill App
"Because I love this feature, I port it to every new rom that comes out. It was originally from loserskater. This is slide zoom or edge zoom whichever you prefer, created for Sprint stock touchwiz deodex 4.1.2 MD4 only. It may work for others but i havent tested that at all. Remember to do a backup first."
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2253747&highlight=edge+zoom
Here is the Note reference to it, which is at best obscure, if not about the worst possible description of the feature I could imagine. It would appear the writer never took the time to try it, so to be able to describe it more accurately, something like "Touch then Slide any finger along the edges of the screen (whether in Landscape or portrait, left edge (for "lefties") or right edge) then Slide Up to zoom in, slide down to zoom out.)
Instead, here is their description, in section Enhanced User Experience:
"Internet: Slide your thumb from the left or right edge to zoom in and out"
Pitiful, don't you think? No wonder people didn't even know it existed. In fact, I at first thought it was a bug, until I tried "reproducing it" to be able to report it, and then found it was entirely reproducible, so reproducible as to be something I trained myself on in about 5 minutes, and loved it ever since.
The big reason, ONE HANDED PHONE USE, ONE FINGER FULLY USER CONTROLLABLE ZOOM LEVEL.
It is far superior to "pinch to zoom" which requires Two hands, to hold the phone in one and pinch with the other, and two fingers. IT was and is INGENIOUS.
My guess!! Samsung had to come up with something to counter Apple's lawsuit for "pinch to zoom" and did, and it was awesome. WHen they lost the suit, but the penalty was "pocket change" for a company of their magnitude, they dumped it. Like adding a physical Home button to a touch screen, they seem to have this whacky nervousness about being too different from Apple. THe Home button is an absurd idea. I fumble the phone every time I have to press it. Not to mention the fact, I know with every press I am imposing salt from my sweaty thumb into a switch, (salt -> metal = corrosion DUH!!!!) which is by far the dumbest idea even Apple could have had. I digress.
Anyway:
http://www.samsung.com/us/article/galaxy-note-10-1-update
SprintGalSII said:
The Edge Slide Zoom feature, as some call it, was actually a feature that Samsung "quietly" put on then took off, ...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Amazing research skills. Thank you. I'm going to ask one of my favorite devs to try and bake it in to his ROM.
SprintGalSII said:
The Edge Slide Zoom feature, as some call it, was actually a feature that Samsung "quietly" put on then took off, partially. (so quietly, I have yet to find a name for it anywhere on Samsung's website, in documentation, and if you contact Samsung Tech Support, either via Chat or at the "Dedicated Galaxy Support Phone Number" you will find they don't even know about it. In fact, I once got into a heated dispute with a "Dedicated Galaxy Support ""TECH"" " because he insisted I had loaded 3rd party software and they could not support me on it. I had to escalate to a supervisor, who confirmed the underling's claim until I firmly asked him to go get a S3 and I'd prove to him it was not 3rd party.)
It was on the S3, Note II, and Note 10.1 Tablet. Sprint removed it from the S3 with the February OTA release of MA6, which I refused until I got so fed up with Sprint, that I switched to AT&T. Much to my chagrin, the AT&T current release still has it. I bought 2 S3s, but got an S4 for myself. Unfortunately the S4 doesn't have it, so I'm hoping someone on here will develop it, like the user below references, except on the S3. Sprint removed it from the Note II in the last update. I don't know about other carriers, and I don't know about the Tablet. I'll be at the AT&T store later this week and will check, and report my findings.
I found it to be so useful myself, it was what pushed me over the edge to renew a 2 Year Phone Cost Subsidy agreement with Sprint, replacing a "Rooted" SII that finally was working, after I got so fed up with Samsung dragging its feet on releasing their last update.
Here are links to others who discuss it, and the only link I've found where Samsung even acknowledges it exists.
CHECK OUT HIS/HER DESCRIPTION:
[MODs][MD4][TW roms][DeOdex] Slide Zoom/ APM/ and APM with Hold Menu to kill App
"Because I love this feature, I port it to every new rom that comes out. It was originally from loserskater. This is slide zoom or edge zoom whichever you prefer, created for Sprint stock touchwiz deodex 4.1.2 MD4 only. It may work for others but i havent tested that at all. Remember to do a backup first."
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2253747&highlight=edge+zoom
Here is the Note reference to it, which is at best obscure, if not about the worst possible description of the feature I could imagine. It would appear the writer never took the time to try it, so to be able to describe it more accurately, something like "Touch then Slide any finger along the edges of the screen (whether in Landscape or portrait, left edge (for "lefties") or right edge) then Slide Up to zoom in, slide down to zoom out.)
Instead, here is their description, in section Enhanced User Experience:
"Internet: Slide your thumb from the left or right edge to zoom in and out"
Pitiful, don't you think? No wonder people didn't even know it existed. In fact, I at first thought it was a bug, until I tried "reproducing it" to be able to report it, and then found it was entirely reproducible, so reproducible as to be something I trained myself on in about 5 minutes, and loved it ever since.
The big reason, ONE HANDED PHONE USE, ONE FINGER FULLY USER CONTROLLABLE ZOOM LEVEL.
It is far superior to "pinch to zoom" which requires Two hands, to hold the phone in one and pinch with the other, and two fingers. IT was and is INGENIOUS.
My guess!! Samsung had to come up with something to counter Apple's lawsuit for "pinch to zoom" and did, and it was awesome. WHen they lost the suit, but the penalty was "pocket change" for a company of their magnitude, they dumped it. Like adding a physical Home button to a touch screen, they seem to have this whacky nervousness about being too different from Apple. THe Home button is an absurd idea. I fumble the phone every time I have to press it. Not to mention the fact, I know with every press I am imposing salt from my sweaty thumb into a switch, (salt -> metal = corrosion DUH!!!!) which is by far the dumbest idea even Apple could have had. I digress.
Anyway:
http://www.samsung.com/us/article/galaxy-note-10-1-update
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Just to be clear I am speaking about the zoom option
I have search all over for this fix. I am a T Mobile user and most all the new Roms have the option to "disable" the zoom feature but the edge zoom never worked in the first place on any ROM I found.
I was so desperate for a fix, I gave this a chance anyway KNOWING that I may brick my t999 S3 and have to pay another 35 to Jtag it again. (Yes I did it once). No Brick, IT WORKS!!!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for finding this and explaining it. It works on my T999 S3. Not sure about your sprint phones but Im a very happy camper. Did I say thanks you?
Thanks.
Rev10eight said:
Just to be clear I am speaking about the zoom option
I have search all over for this fix. I am a T Mobile user and most all the new Roms have the option to "disable" the zoom feature but the edge zoom never worked in the first place on any ROM I found.
I was so desperate for a fix, I gave this a chance anyway KNOWING that I may brick my t999 S3 and have to pay another 35 to Jtag it again. (Yes I did it once). No Brick, IT WORKS!!!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for finding this and explaining it. It works on my T999 S3. Not sure about your sprint phones but Im a very happy camper. Did I say thanks you?
Thanks.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Glad it worked for you. I tried on 4.2.2 and no luck. Not working on my S 4.
Anyone who comes across this thread should give the following a try. Looks promising:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2373961
Here's why
LAG, way too laggy (even with airview, air gesture, multi view, s-voice all off)
No FM radio
Poor Data - seems a lot worse then S3
Thermostat un reliable reading thus point less
TouchWiz - just seems not quite finished
Touch screen sometime does not react.
headphone sound very poor and volume does not go all that high
Thinking of going for HTC One instead.
zeddys said:
Here's why
LAG, way too laggy (even with airview, air gesture, multi view, s-voice all off)
No FM radio
Poor Data - seems a lot worse then S3
Thermostat reading point less
TouchWiz - just seems not quite finished
Touch screen sometime does not react.
Thinking of going for HTC One instead.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Might want to try updating firmware or getting a replacement.
Smooth as butter here and seeing speeds up to 24Mbps (3G).
Everyone knew they weren't getting FM radio from the start but you can just stream this off the net.
zeddys said:
Here's why
LAG, way too laggy (even with airview, air gesture, multi view, s-voice all off)
No FM radio
Poor Data - seems a lot worse then S3
Thermostat reading point less
TouchWiz - just seems not quite finished
Touch screen sometime does not react.
Thinking of going for HTC One instead.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Here we go again....duh.
Getting bored on such threads dude.
Btw....I want a S4 with "thermostat" too
Would be nice to take the temperature of the water before going to shower. The water's temperature affects my singing abilities in the shower.
demlasjr said:
Btw....I want a S4 with "thermostat" too
Would be nice to take the temperature of the water before going to shower. The water's temperature affects my singing abilities in the shower.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Doesn't your shower do that already?
Also I think he had a more nefarious use for checking temperature, specifically in his southern region after big bubba rampage on his butt last night.
otester said:
Doesn't your shower do that already?
Also I think he had a more nefarious use for checking temperature, specifically in his southern region after big bubba rampage on his butt last night.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes it have, but using using the phone will be nice
zeddys said:
Here's why
LAG, way too laggy (even with airview, air gesture, multi view, s-voice all off)
No FM radio
Poor Data - seems a lot worse then S3
Thermostat un reliable reading thus point less
TouchWiz - just seems not quite finished
Touch screen sometime does not react.
headphone sound very poor and volume does not go all that high
Thinking of going for HTC One instead.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Great decision, thanks for announcing it to the world.
As a result, I assume you won't be creating anymore threads in this forum!
Thanks! Bye!
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
zeddys said:
Here's why
LAG, way too laggy (even with airview, air gesture, multi view, s-voice all off)
No FM radio
Poor Data - seems a lot worse then S3
Thermostat un reliable reading thus point less
TouchWiz - just seems not quite finished
Touch screen sometime does not react.
headphone sound very poor and volume does not go all that high
Thinking of going for HTC One instead.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Data always sucks on Android until you do some build.prop magic and get the speeds up to normal. Used to get 25mbps max before and after doing some tweaking I'm now almost constantly getting ~90mbps. Compared to my friend's S4 on the same exact 4G network, my speeds were almost double to what he was getting. My phone also switched to 4G in places where his phone stayed on 3G.
The same thing happened on the Nexus 4.
I'd also consider installing faux123's kernel before returning your phone, and applying some tweaks. Intellidemand + fiops + undervolt + Intelli-Plug (instead of MPDecision), takes care of most of the lag. :good: The HTC One definitely delivers a better experience out of the box, but I'd wait to see what google has in store first, as there's no phone faster than the Nexus 4 running a linaro 4.9 compiled rom. Also I doubt you'll have a better listening-experience on the One, as both have the same exact audio codec.
It's good enough for the head of Android at Google. I guess he has lower standards than folks on XDA. Or maybe he just doesn't know how to use it.
Q: Is it a problem for Google that Samsung is so dominant, and makes almost all the money on the platform?
A: I realize this gets played up in the press a lot. Samsung is a great partner to work with. We work with them on pretty much almost all our important products. Here’s my Samsung Galaxy S4. [Pichai holds up the phone.]http://www.wired.com/business/2013/05/exclusive-sundar-pichai-reveals-his-plans-for-android/[/QUOTE]
zeddys said:
Here's why
LAG, way too laggy (even with airview, air gesture, multi view, s-voice all off)
No FM radio
Poor Data - seems a lot worse then S3
Thermostat un reliable reading thus point less
TouchWiz - just seems not quite finished
Touch screen sometime does not react.
headphone sound very poor and volume does not go all that high
Thinking of going for HTC One instead.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Lag is terrible and not being mentioned often enough for the new buyers who should be warned.
Reminds me of early days of laggy Galaxy S (one) before lag fixed ROMs arrived.
Sent from my GT-I9505 using xda premium
rdy2go said:
Lag is terrible and not being mentioned often enough for the new buyers who should be warned.
Reminds me of early days of laggy Galaxy S (one) before lag fixed ROMs arrived.
Sent from my GT-I9505 using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Maybe you've got a defective unit or a much heavy apps (like anti-virus) running in the background because mine doesn't do that. The only time I noticed lag was when I returned from a heavy app (like NFS Most Wanted) to the homescreen, but the first update I received fixed that.
zeddys said:
Thinking of going for HTC One instead.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
And you think the HTC One is free from different issues?
Your going to be disapointed in the HTC One's issues to.
You can easily make your S4 lag free by disabling animations and transitions in developer options.
Sent from my GT-I9505 using Tapatalk 2
idk what kind of S4 you got... Mine is FLYINGGGG
I have seen many posts about lag and headset/audio crackling. I have no such issues my phone is fast and lag free and i have a few of the air/motion gestures on
Get an iphone and glue a thermometer to it.
Problem solved. Next up World Hunger
Sent un Samsung Galaxia S Quatro LTE
Toss3 said:
Data always sucks on Android until you do some build.prop magic and get the speeds up to normal. Used to get 25mbps max before and after doing some tweaking I'm now almost constantly getting ~90mbps. Compared to my friend's S4 on the same exact 4G network, my speeds were almost double to what he was getting. My phone also switched to 4G in places where his phone stayed on 3G.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Which build.prop magic values did you use? Any refference?
Thanks
Sent from my GT-N7100 using Tapatalk 2
iznee said:
Which build.prop magic values did you use? Any refference?
Thanks
Sent from my GT-N7100 using Tapatalk 2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Attached my build.prop below. I think the speed improvements largely depend on the carrier, but do try it. Just copy the build.prop to /system/ and change the permission to rw-r--r--(chmod 644). Reboot.
http://db.tt/iTFwcUBY
Toss3 said:
Attached my build.prop below. I think the speed improvements largely depend on the carrier, but do try it. Just copy the build.prop to /system/ and change the permission to rw-r--r--(chmod 644). Reboot.
http://db.tt/iTFwcUBY
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
is it just me or is that heap size tiny? am i going crazy or should that be way bigger with 2gb of ram... i assumed 64m or 128m but 24? my droid 3 is 32m by default
(i dont have mine yet but it was just an assumption)
edit: my bad found more code on the dalvik vm heap, my droid 3 is old lol they must have added newer code on it with newer android versions
Did you purchase a fake unit?
Galaxy S4 is smooth as butter.
It has no match in the smartphone arsenal.:victory:
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.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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)
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It is there if you use easy mode on your launcher as far as i know.
Sent from my GT-P5100 using XDA-Developers mobile app
Soufiansky said:
It is there if you use easy mode on your launcher as far as i know.
Sent from my GT-P5100 using XDA-Developers mobile app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.
CorruptProfile said:
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.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thank you again for the feedback , when i come back home i will post the links you send me in pm
Thanks to @CorruptProfile
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
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?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It is 5.3" , way smaller than the huge Nexus 6.
Soufiansky said:
It is 5.3" , way smaller than the huge Nexus 6.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You can wait for the M10 , and for root it will come one day , patience
Sent from my GT-P5100 using XDA-Developers mobile app
Soufiansky said:
You can wait for the M10 , and for root it will come one day , patience
Sent from my GT-P5100 using XDA-Developers mobile app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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 ;/
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Note 5 ? Nexus 6P ? We're going in an off topic here...
Sent from my GT-P5100 using XDA-Developers mobile app
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.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
What about the module thing ? I saw a lot of issues about it these days
Sent from my GT-P5100 using XDA-Developers mobile app
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.
CorruptProfile said:
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.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.
Sent from my GT-P5100 using XDA-Developers mobile app