Hi to all, I've just got an s5 and I'm wondering is there a plastic film over the heart rate monitor and flash like there is on the camera? Only asking because it looks like there could be but I can seem to get it off and don't want to risk scratching the glass
Many thanks in advance
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Hi no there is not any over the sensor only the camera
Oddly enough it varies. There have been plenty of people asserting that they had a plastic film over the camera glass to make those comments credible. However, I have bought two S5's brand new, in sealed boxes from a major carrier that did not have the film in place. So perhaps a carrier can specify this item or Samsung may have made a running change in their manufacturing procedure.
Regardless it shouldn't be hard to detect if it is there and remove it. I haven't heard of anyone saying that there is a film on the sensors though.
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Excellent thanks for the replies, I didn't think there was one on it but these things can be hard to spot sometimes, had one on my s4 when I got it last year on the home button for months without realising and that was hard to remove lol
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I had a S2 and a S3 and now i was really thinking of buying the S4 (9500 or 9505, i didn't decide that too) but now i'm really worried about how many people are disapointed with the phone... and also with how it's weak and easily breakable the screen (glass and amoled) can be... some people are saying that it broke by itself while charging or on the front pocket...
so, my question to you guys is: would you buy it again? and why?
please, help the worried person here
Yes, despite Samsung's 'nonsense' (the crap with sources, recent f*****y with locking down bootloader) with firmware. As long as you run custom firmware, it's a great device. And if you're stupid enough to use a $800+ electronic device which has your entire life on it without a protective case, you probably deserve for it to break on you.
Does that answer your question ?
Well i think that just stock rom is enough and you have a great device in your hands. It is not weak and there is always some bad phones that comes out of the factory but i believe that samsung will fix those bad devices and i recommended I-9505 with snapdragon 600 or the new 800 snapdragon s4.
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I think you buy GT-I9505.It's good choice until now.
Reason why : it's have many Room Cook and good supports on this forum.You can try it and comments yourself.
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Yes, despite Samsung's 'nonsense' (the crap with sources, recent f*****y with locking down bootloader) with firmware. As long as you run custom firmware, it's a great device. And if you're stupid enough to use a $800+ electronic device which has your entire life on it without a protective case, you probably deserve for it to break on you.
Does that answer your question ?
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I will, as i did with all my phones, use a protective case, but as i said, there was cases where the AMOLED broke with it on the front pocket, without any kind of impact. I fount those cases here and some others foruns in Brazil...
I always carry my phone in the Front jeans pocket and nothing happened to mine. I guess if you have Bad luck there is a Chance of breaking the screen. Could happen with any other phone too.
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I don't have a case and it's fine. Would get this device again. I leave my nexus 4, HTC one and the others at home lately. I just like this device, something about it just ticks all the boxes.
Every phone had a thread on screens cracking etc. The aluminum in the HTC scratched to bits on me and it looks horrible. The nexus back glass scratched .... My s4 is in mint condition.
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i was wondering if samsung ever said anything about those cracked screens...
I'm paranoid about my technology and today I dropped my phone from about waist hight, it landed on its back and I have an insepio feather case on it but I'm terrified I caused some sort of internal damage to it.
That said, how hard is it to cause internal damage from dropping a S4 with a light case on it? How would you know besides obvious things like a screen or vibration not working?
Thanks in advance! Hopefully your responses will calm my worry's about this. Also is there manufacturer protection on phones that you bought 2nd hand (I bought mine on Swappa).
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Honestly it's hard to say. Every drop can be different. I've seen a video on YouTube where a guy runs over the phone with his car and it works. My mother has dropped her phone with just a flip cover on it and it works fine. Me on the other hand, have an Otterbox Defender on my phone, because I can be a bit more rough, have a more active lifestyle, etc, with my devices.
If your phone is still operating, chances are you're okay.
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I'm paranoid about my technology and today I dropped my phone from about waist hight, it landed on its back and I have an insepio feather case on it but I'm terrified I caused some sort of internal damage to it.
That said, how hard is it to cause internal damage from dropping a S4 with a light case on it? How would you know besides obvious things like a screen or vibration not working?
Thanks in advance! Hopefully your responses will calm my worry's about this. Also is there manufacturer protection on phones that you bought 2nd hand (I bought mine on Swappa).
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If its stillworking im sure your fine. They are meant to take a mini spanking from time to time
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Am u just being picky or does it look like my camera lens is crooked? Seeing as how i basically paid retail, and within the worry free gurantee i could return it. Just wanted to check withthe community before doing so.
Mine looks crooked too, but it looks crooked differently from different angles. I think what's happening is a shadow is being cast that's making it look crooked. Could just be an optical illusion. You could always stop by Verizon and compare the floor model.
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I received two N3 today and the one I got from Best Buy, the camera lens is crooked compared to the one from Verizon..
Does your camera take a while to auto focus? (Not sure if it's related to being crooked. Can't test the other N3, as it's already packaged ready to be shipped to its new owner)
I'm going to exchange it tomorrow and check it out prior to completing the swap @ BB..
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I dont know, but in my opinion I think it's not crooked at all. Or am I just not seeing it hahahah
I'm not seeing it either here..
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I have a week old note 3 and noticed this. The camera assembly is slightly crooked/skewed to the right. Seems like a manufacturing fault, i dont think the lens itself is crooked, just the glass housing covering the lens is not glued in accurately. Camera works fine though. I checked a couple of note 3s around my workplace and almost all seem to have this defect. Cant decide whether this is a big enough issue to replace by phone or not
There is now a replacement back housing available on etradesupply for our phone.. I have since lost my note 3 and gotten a replacement from asurion and that one does not have a crooked lens..
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I have a att note3 and noticed mine is crooked just a little bit. Sometimes the angle of the shadow make it look more crooked than it really is. I'm not that worried about mine though.
Dear all,
I have two questions regards of note 3.i just bought it..first of all after 12 to 15 minutes of usuage it gets extra ordinary hot from back side near to camera.
scondly its camera is always taking pics with waterly looks.its not sharp as s3 or s4. even s3 camera gives better results .
Can any body tell me the solution..?
lahorieeee said:
Dear all,
I have two questions regards of note 3.i just bought it..first of all after 12 to 15 minutes of usuage it gets extra ordinary hot from back side near to camera.
scondly its camera is always taking pics with waterly looks.its not sharp as s3 or s4. even s3 camera gives better results .
Can any body tell me the solution..?
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Did u tried to compare with others? If u still got warranty i suggest u to use it.
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It's normal to be hot, considering that you just bought it and will try to use it as much as possible. About the camera, check if you have peeled off the protecting transparent layer from the camera
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Albania said:
It's normal to be hot, considering that you just bought it and will try to use it as much as possible. About the camera, check if you have peeled off the protecting transparent layer from the camera
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Dear Albania,
Its gets extreme hot just after 15 minutes, should i get it check or keep on using it...
and there is no protection cover on camera
I'm sure most of us arabs have an htc one m8 now so like other countries threads time to make ours
i bought my m8 from Viva Bahrain, the good thing is that it came with a rubberized tpu cover from htc in the box which afaik is not available in the US version, also just got an OTA to 1.54.401.10
I was gonna bought it from batelco but it was out of stock also they said they only have the silver, then i bought it from zain.
$385 on-contract for one year is too expensive but i'm happy with the new network
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Here in Iraq black-market 660$ only 16gb. Gunmetal and silver . No accessories available ?
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I was hurry when i bought it, my contract with batelco not finished yet, Also zain selling the M8, S5, Z2 and Note 3 for free until 5 jun
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I was hurry when i bought it, my contract with batelco not finished yet, Also zain selling the M8, S5, Z2 and Note 3 for free until 5 jun
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yea same thing happened with me, i bought it at night for 59 bd down payment, and the next morning they announce free without any downpayment
guys dont get too excited about the TPU cover, you can get the awesome awesome Baesus air case TPU for only 7$ on aliexpress
now allow me to explain why do we get the TPU cover included:
its because unlike the primary world we are being screwed with 16GB internal rather than 32GB, this is why the cover is compensation
the cover itself is not that great as it kills the device beauty and also might cause scratches because of all the specs that can get stuck inside, plus affects touch-ability due to the thick edges and the port flip at the bottom is simply a joke
the only good thing about it is that it insures you protection from day one that's it, make sure to clean it well every time you place the phone inside it as it can ruin your grey M8 in time if any sand particle gets stuck inside
best official cover so far for the M8 is the standard flip case from HTC
Also, ours is 2.3GHz...as compared with 2.5 elsewhere...
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2.5 only in Asia.
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i had a non shiny part in the silver surrounding and i got a first day replacement device now my other device having extra brightness above HTC logo ( like a light leak ) phone is going back to HTC i guess but now need to relock bootloader and do this **** i hope they replace my device again instead of replacing the screen only because i already got too much scratches on both rear and front camera . this phone needs protection everywhere.......
just a tip for whoever new with this device protect your rear and front cameras and dont use the case you get with the phone as @hamdir said it will cause scratches on the silver surrounding...
oh yes and I'm from Oman but my phone is from Comtel (U.A.E).
Actually,these scratches are by default... The finish is like this... I bought 2 from comtel, both are similar... With mine, the top speaker grill, little bit chirping from camera side...
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mathrania said:
Actually,these scratches are by default... The finish is like this... I bought 2 from comtel, both are similar... With mine, the top speaker grill, little bit chirping from camera side...
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We had an HTC dealer here in Oman but now we dont. I repaired my HTC one X infamous WiFi signal problem under warranty when we had a dealer here. They told me it's sent to UAE don't know if it was comtel but my phone have been unlocked (relocked) when sent. Now the same thing with HTC one m8. Do Comtel reject rooted phones in any case or only when phone is bricked?
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Also, ours is 2.3GHz...as compared with 2.5 elsewhere...
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2.5ghz is just bull**** so no worries, stop running behind cpu clocks people its not what makes these phones great (gpu, bandwidth, thermals, nand all more important)
Why else does the battery lasts this long and still run so well with the power saver 1.3ghz cap
Apple didn't even cross 1.5ghz
Stop chasing ghost cpu clocks, they only accelerate throttling
I agree with Hamdir,
Clock speed is irrelevant. I am coming from a Nexus 5 and I don't honestly see a "significant" speed boost, granted the Nexus 5 is highly optimized by google. Still the bottom line is if while operating the phone you don't experience any lags (in the M8's case thats far from it) then speed is irrelevant. I am pretty sure you could possibly even under clock and not notice a huge drop in performance.
Cheers.
Actually power saver mode locks the CPU at 1190mhz. Phone still smooth yes it might lag abit in some apps like Twitter but it's very usable with great battery. The phone is perfect! The only thing that annoys me are the cameras not the quality but the lenses! They get scratched pretty easily and I didnt know that when I was always cleaning the lens using shirts.
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Cuz of the lenses scratches I ordered nilkin screen protector that come with a lense protector . I think the lense cover I plastic .
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At last.... a thread for us, ME users.
My free silicone case which came with the device is already damaged. Bought a HTC transparent hard cover with screen protector from Sharaf DG. Only worry is that it's not fully covering top and bottom. Let me see how it goes....
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skr_xd said:
At last.... a thread for us, ME users.
My free silicone case which came with the device is already damaged. Bought a HTC transparent hard cover with screen protector from Sharaf DG. Only worry is that it's not fully covering top and bottom. Let me see how it goes....
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I was lucky, a friend ordered the Spigen Slim Armor and didn't want it. I've been using that since day one. Sadly its a bit bulky. I've ordered this hopefully will get it tomorrow. As for the screen protector xtremeguard was having a 90% off deal so bought the full body protection.
Cheers.
I got my Dot View frim Jumbo... It looks amazing and attractive.. Plus Viper is gonna release Dot View notifications in their upcoming update
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does anyone know if UAE HTC service center reject warranty if bootloader is unlocked? of course i will relock it as we dont have S-OFF it will say tampered Relocked..
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does anyone know if UAE HTC service center reject warranty if bootloader is unlocked? of course i will relock it as we dont have S-OFF it will say tampered Relocked..
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You can use this to remove it. The tampered unlock bit at least. That's what I did.