Quadcore or the Octacore - Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I am a fan of the aosp project and I am thinking of getting a S4. So what should I go for quadcore or octacore ?

It's a very personal choice! But still, If you have 4g in your country, then go for quad and if you don't then octa is not a bad choice either! Just a small heads up, quad is a more widely distributed market, so it will always have more development on it than the octa!
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I'd happily swap my octa for quad.

Thats an easy one! Since you love AOSP the quad core Snapdragon variant is the best choice.
The octa core version doesnt have official Cyanogenmod support (yet). Exynos sources are a pain and Qualcomm delivers excellent dev support via CAF.

manishnraj said:
I am a fan of the aosp project and I am thinking of getting a S4. So what should I go for quadcore or octacore ?
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I9505 quadcore ... I never looked for octacore due to lack of dev support.

If you like asop a quad is best.
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Quad for the dev support and 4G. Octa for.... oh well.... for nothing really.

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MaKTaiL said:
Quad for the dev support and 4G. Octa for.... oh well.... for nothing really.
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Let me fix that for you
Octa for the camera quality, battery life, Perseus Kernel, performance (though probably not very noticeable).
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I thought the 9505 had better battery life than 9500.

htcplussony said:
I thought the 9505 had better battery life than 9500.
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It doesn't, check the battery threads.
The only situation where the i9505 will last longer is if you're playing a very demanding game for hours.
When the A15 is running, battery doesn't last as long, but for most things, the A15 just runs for short periods of time, and the A7 is a lot more power efficient than the snapdragon.
In the end, you can get around 6-7 hours of screen time on a 24 hour period easily.
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Speechless after Reading Snapdragon 800 / 600

Speechless after Reading Snapdragon 800 / 600,
Samsung probably won't implement this on their next Flagship; but wouldn't the Snapdragon 800/600 outperform the Exynos 5 processors? This is crazy, but mobile technology is making long strides. :laugh:
Maybe but no one will be able to touch the unique and innovative software and tw ux
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Well, CNET says the 800 would be coming to mobile devices (mobile phones as well) in Q2 of this year.
Im loving the News From The Guys Who Make Snapdragon Processors, they clocked some of the newer ones at 2,3 Ghz (Possibly NOT Overclocked ^__^)
Octa Core in Note 3 will do
Handschriftlich von meinem Note 2 gesendet
I guess you didn't hear about the Exynos 5 chip..
8 cores...
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YoungAceAtlanta said:
I guess you didn't hear about the Exynos 5 chip..
8 cores...
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And they eats your beloved battery mate!
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optimusjeet said:
And they eats your beloved battery mate!
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No they don't! You probably didn't even read about it!!!!!!
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optimusjeet said:
And they eats your beloved battery mate!
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And snapdragon doesnt eats your battery? Lol......
Ever heard of big.LITTLE.
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big.little and octa core are same............2 quad cores ARM SoC attached back-back...one A7 quad core for simple tasks and another A15 quadcore for heavy stuff...battery consumtion has been reported to be way low than what we have now:fingers-crossed:
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And snapdragon doesnt eats your battery? Lol......
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No generally snapdragon is quite good for battery life management.

Galaxy S4 U.S. with Exynos 5 Octa

Does anyone know if their is a chance that Samsung might release a Exynos 5 Octa chipset in the U.S. later on rather than the Snapdragon 600.
I wish samsung would have waited until they were able to manufacture more Exynos 5 Octa chipset until they released the GS4 but instead they got it out as fast as they could so they can beat out htc one sales
99% that you wont get Exynos...
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Depends on lte. So here in the US, lte is dominant so it will be the SD600 for us
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Wait until the international version comes to the market. It will be a little expensive but u can order it to US as well. But exynos will be quite futurisitc. Sam mobile get thier hands on the octa variant and the benchmarks are topping 27k in quadrant standards..
Htc one is at 19k, so i dont guess any flagship can compete the s4 atleast in 2013. So they actually saved it for a latter release so that their phone can top twice.
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This
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2200796
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2209783

LTE on the GT-i9500?

I am purchasing a Samsung Galaxy S-IV GT-i9500 and I was hoping that I could somehow get it to work with LTE on AT&T. Is this possible. Like by flashing a new modem or something?
Thanks in advance.
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Pure+ said:
I am purchasing a Samsung Galaxy S-IV GT-i9500 and I was hoping that I could somehow get it to work with LTE on AT&T. Is this possible. Like by flashing a new modem or something?
Thanks in advance.
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not possible
if you want LTE get i9505
this was made clear in a lot of posts here
Blackwolf10 said:
not possible
if you want LTE get i9505
this was made clear in a lot of posts here
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I'd rather have eight cores than LTE. Thanks though.
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LOL
Pure+ said:
I'd rather have eight cores than LTE. Thanks though.
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That's a shame, because you won't be getting 8-cores. You'll be getting two sets of 4 - there's a difference.
Just another sucker to the marketing machine.
BJ van Beethoven said:
That's a shame, because you won't be getting 8-cores. You'll be getting two sets of 4 - there's a difference.
Just another sucker to the marketing machine.
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You owned him lol
BJ van Beethoven said:
That's a shame, because you won't be getting 8-cores. You'll be getting two sets of 4 - there's a difference.
Just another sucker to the marketing machine.
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4 + 4 = 8. I am very aware of how the technology works. I would still rather have the Exynos 5 Octacore processor.
CorruptedSanity said:
You owned him lol
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No, he didn't own me. He thinks he did. But you can't own someone for having a preference.
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Pure+ said:
I'd rather have eight cores than LTE. Thanks though.
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Actually: CPU Quad-core 1.9 GHz Krait 300 (I9505) VS. Quad-core 1.6 GHz Cortex-A15 & quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7 (I9500).
In tests it seems that I9505 was only some very small steps behind the 8 core... so I would think carefully. If you plan to change again the phone in next year or so, then yes, go for the 8 core. Otherwise, bear in mind that LTE will become more and more used... and cheaper
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I'd rather have eight cores than LTE. Thanks though.
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I'm the opposite but still I would have loved the Octa to go with the lte.
I still believe that Samsung will release an Octa with lte in a few months time.
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okty2k said:
Actually: CPUQuad-core 1.9 GHz Krait 300 (I9505) VS. Quad-core 1.6 GHz Cortex-A15 & quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7 (I9500).
In tests it seems that I9505 was only some very small steps behind the 8 core... so I would think carefully. If you plan to change again the phone in next year or so, then yes, go for the 8 core. Otherwise, bear in mind that LTE will become more and more used... and cheaper
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Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy LTE speeds. But I almost always on WiFi. Probably 90-95 percent of the time I'm using my phone is on WiFi. So LTE is not a big deal to me. And like you said, if I plan on getting a new phone in a year then get the octacore. I get a new phone at least once a year sometimes more.
sxi200 said:
I'm the opposite but still I would have loved the Octa to go with the lte.
I still believe that Samsung will release an Octa with lte in a few months time.
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If your right and Samsung does release the us octacore version with LTE then I'll simply sell the one I'm getting and get the us variant.
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sxi200 said:
I'm the opposite but still I would have loved the Octa to go with the lte.
I still believe that Samsung will release an Octa with lte in a few months time.
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Not a chance. There really isn't any reason that Samsung would do that. They have already manufactured and moved millions (tens of?) of the lte version. Why on earth would they create another? Octa is just going to appear in their future tablets
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lambstone said:
Not a chance. There really isn't any reason that Samsung would do that. They have already manufactured and moved millions (tens of?) of the lte version. Why on earth would they create another? Octa is just going to appear in their future tablets
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To add to your statement. I just read several articles that discussed how the snapdragon processor is designed for the LTE bands used by USA carriers. The Exynos processor requires a lot of work by Samsung to make it work on lte in the us. The note 3 may be the first samsung phone to have the octacore and LTE in the us. But I don't want a 6 inch screen in my front pocket. That would be almost like putting an ipad mini of your pocket. Almost.
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One thing I am seeing a lot of is that the GT-i9500 has an overheating problem. Does the GT-i9505 have the same problem or not? I also see a lot more development on the GT-i9505 but I really only want to root to de-bloat and I don't really need custom Ron for that.
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Pure+ said:
One thing I am seeing a lot of is that the GT-i9500 has an overheating problem. Does the GT-i9505 have the same problem or not? I also see a lot more development on the GT-i9505 but I really only want to root to de-bloat and I don't really need custom Ron for that.
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The i9505 will only get hot under intensive use such as gaming or the likes. I had no choice in choosing an i9500 or i9505, but I don't mind. The octacore is all nice when the technology works as Samsung advertised it, but it doesn't, and the i9505 doesn't lag at all for me. Plenty of development and debloated ROM's to keep you happy.
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lambstone said:
Not a chance. There really isn't any reason that Samsung would do that. They have already manufactured and moved millions (tens of?) of the lte version. Why on earth would they create another? Octa is just going to appear in their future tablets
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That's what people said about the S3 then the i9305 was released.
They do this around the time a new iPhone is released.
Pure+ said:
The Exynos processor requires a lot of work by Samsung to make it work on lte in the us. The note 3 may be the first samsung phone to have the octacore and LTE in the us.
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Again, that's what was said about the S3. That quad core + lte was too hard but then the S3 4g i9305 was released. Remember from release they had a quad core + lte in Korea so why people were saying it was too hard beats me. And now again the Korean model is both Octa and lte.
My money is on an Octa + lte around September.
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Getting 70mpbs on lte with my gt-i337m
Never got near that even on my school's 100mbps wifi
Pure+ said:
One thing I am seeing a lot of is that the GT-i9500 has an overheating problem. Does the GT-i9505 have the same problem or not? I also see a lot more development on the GT-i9505 but I really only want to root to de-bloat and I don't really need custom Ron for that.
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I am using a I9505. What I can say is that, while it get warm/hot under certain circumstances (mostly games + charging in parallel), it is the 'coldest' phone I had until now. Compared, even the S3 is getting much hotter. So far, I did not find the temperature as a disturbing point (as with several other phones).

Octa Core 3G vs Quad Core 4g AGAIN??

I am looking at buying this but i am now once again confused which one, the cheaper one to get is the octa core , but 4G is becoming VERY hard to turn down now... So i think its going to be the quad.
I am from Australia the standard is the 4G Quad.
Whats your thoughts and howcome there is not a thread for both phones like last year
I would go for 4G.
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Buy the one supported in your region.
4G would be the way to go.
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4g one will have more dev support.
octa core one will have very very slightly fast gaming performance due to the gpu.
Hellscythe said:
4g one will have more dev support.
octa core one will have very very slightly fast gaming performance due to the gpu.
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Actually the GPU I believe it's the weaker part when you compare Octa vs Snapdragon.
Not by a huge margin but Adreno performs better than Mali.
CPU performance is better in the Exynos.
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Is Snapdragon 805 model any faster?

I could see you can buy SM-G906 having Snapdragon 805 inside. I did searching using Bing to find any good benchmarking of the new processor. But alas. So if you got S5 prime for any chance, then please share your benchmark results. It is great also read any impressions about new display. One bad thing it isn't using Wolfson chip, so no good audio
Little more faster, i think no worth.
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