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I want to buy a phone with SuperAMOLED display. I cant afford galaxy S2 and SuperAMOLED nexus S is not available in my country. So that leaves only the galaxy S.
Now I really dont want to root and all that, I just want a good "stock" experience. I dont care about having the highest benchmark score but I do want the user interface and games to run reasonably smooth in comparison to phones like the nexus S and xperia arc.
I have heard galaxy S is very slow if you dont change the memory system that the phone uses? Is stock gingerbread slow as well?
To a user like me would you rather suggest a nexus S and compromise on LCD?
Get a galaxy s, use stock jvt and custom kernel for reliability and speed. Best of all worlds you can also use a theme to make it look better
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I also think that it's still a good choice, you can get it fairly cheap especially as used device from people that are upgrading to the newer device generation.
The AMOLED screen is awesome! I never want a LCD anymore.
But you're right, the stock firmwares are not the best from a speed perspective. A custom Kernel with a lag fix or Cyanogenmod will increase the speed a lot.
But that shouldn't be a show stopper, as you will get all necessary howto's here on XDA devs.
I just purchased SGS too recently, and here are some of the reasons
- 4.0 inches display, although it is common, but it is better than having a 3.5 inches or less screen
- the GPU at SGS is really really rocking! so supporting ICS isnt really a problem
- Super Amoled Display, which phone can be as cheap as SGS and get it? same goes to Gorilla Glass Display on it, so no protective screen is needed ( at least I am not using it)
- Processor? hhmm... sounds normal, but you gotta love Hummingbird than Snapdragon or else
- front camera, some other phone which has the par price with sgs mostly dont have this, do not underrate front camera, they are useful
edit: u gotta love Super Amoled screen, especially under bright sun!
Nexus S SuperClear LCD version is actually a little cheaper than galaxy S. But it's just that it's not superAMOLED.
It will soon get native ICS which is really the biggest thing in it's favour.
Can someone explain something to me. I have heard the memory system of the galaxy S can slow it down "over time"? What does it mean? It will run smoothly for a few days but then gets slower? Am I over thinking about the memory system and it's not actually that bad? Are there other reputable phones which use it as well?
Sorry for all the questions.
I'm running on a custom ROM (MintBerry MIUI) with Thunderbolt script tweaks and I rarely turn off or even reboot my phone. I haven't noticed any slowdowns after long usage.
I bought used galaxy s from a guy at work because he wanted iphone so it would work better with his mac. And i must say i've been pretty pleased. I used it without any modification several months until i needed more power to get a flash game running and started to overclock it etc..
But even without any rooting and modding its pretty decent phone for "normal" use and right now i might buy it instead of s2 if i had too little money. For now i am temped to buy s2 but with modding to my galaxy s is so good i can skip s2 and buy s3 when it comes out, if there is not a better phone coming
Thanks everyone. So seems like stock unrooted galaxy S gingerbread still runs pretty good and things only improve once I am ready to root and all.
Will be buying galaxy S, SuperAMOLED FTW.
The Galaxy S is not slow at all if you run it on froyo 2.2.1. But on Gingerbread roms, there will be some microlags
Update it to stock firmware called "JVT". This version is rock stable, incredible gaming performance, modem has no signal issues etc.
I am using it, however I am using a kernel and a script, both of which were very easy to install took less than 5 mins and this is the best phone I have used yet.
Only thing i complain about galaxy s is that its slow on browser flash games and without modding and overclocking they don't usually work at all. But then again s2 it works but is laggy. Flash is old and bad and very heavy so no wonder. But without that need of flash i would not much consider of changing to any other phone from galaxy s if i don't got extra money in my pocket.
oh and if you are really cheap a friend got one of those zte phones if i recall the name.. well anyway it had 3 letters and they are slow. Well rooting and modding them they are pretty decent phones to use so you could save some money doing that.
Im very pleased with my Galaxy, before i got this little baby i used to gargle at the top phones all the time.
But this bright charming little thing still got everything i need! Its fast, screen is great, lots of custom roms (including ICS). Battery is good enough if you calibrate iy
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I first had the phone complete stock for a month or two, I'd say it was pretty fast, and I believe it actually never crashed. But then I became to tempted with al the root stuff, and things like voodoo sound. At first I didn't understand at all what a kernel and all that does, and completely panicked when the phone got a bootloop after I flashed something. Ofcourse, after some time you understand what it all means and that sgs is actually really, really very hard to brick. Now I'm try new kernels or Roms every now and then, but I'm really good with my setup now. All that modding and flashing makes the phone faster, but you just gotta need something to understand it.
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Gambler_3 said:
I want to buy a phone with SuperAMOLED display. I cant afford galaxy S2 and SuperAMOLED nexus S is not available in my country. So that leaves only the galaxy S.
Now I really dont want to root and all that, I just want a good "stock" experience. I dont care about having the highest benchmark score but I do want the user interface and games to run reasonably smooth in comparison to phones like the nexus S and xperia arc.
I have heard galaxy S is very slow if you dont change the memory system that the phone uses? Is stock gingerbread slow as well?
To a user like me would you rather suggest a nexus S and compromise on LCD?
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galaxy s with early froyo was slow,with gingerbread is a beast. so hell yeah,it worths buying it
Hi
Ever since I got my Galaxy Note upgraded to 2.3.6, it's consuming a lot of battery...
Android OS has the maximum contribution in it..around 90%...
Please suggest!
Thanks in Advance...
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Smendir said:
Hi
Ever since I got my Galaxy Note upgraded to 2.3.6, it's consuming a lot of battery...
Android OS has the maximum contribution in it..around 90%...
Please suggest!
Thanks in Advance...
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hey u need to understand about battery % first. This seems that you haven't at all used the phone during this discharge, So whatever is battery drained, only OS was running in background.
e.g if your battery drains from 100% to 70% during 10 hours without using a phone at all, among those 30 %, minimal part would have been cousumed by background apps and rest obviously has to be OS (as u have not used display much.) So dont worry abt that, ya but if u r seeing rapid discharge per hour, then its definitely the problem....
Hmmm...thanks for the reply..I will keep a close watch on this now..
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Smendir said:
Hi
Ever since I got my Galaxy Note upgraded to 2.3.6, it's consuming a lot of battery...
Android OS has the maximum contribution in it..around 90%...
Please suggest!
Thanks in Advance...
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note
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I m using battery monitor widget. my gnote still on stock android. with screen off, and taskkiller, its draining 2ma. when on the net, like now, its about 300ma. can anyone share their ma with a rooted gnote? thank you.
I really want to root my phone as I dont like touchwiz
This may not be the issue for you but I have found that often I need to restore my phone to it's original state and start from scratch because not all settings and options are available on the new rom.
If you're still having an issue you could try to restore to factory default and then restore apps and data.
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Hello,
My mom uses a samsung galaxy ace and the battery life is super bad.
When she takes her phone to work around 07:00 its empty at around 13:00. All she does on work with her phone is using whatsapp. When shes at home she plays fruit ninja, lets say her battery is about 70% at that time. She plays for about 20 minutes and when she stops playing its on 17%. When I charge the phone after the game it goes from 17 to 54% in like 5 minutes, how the hell is this possible? Searched google and XDA but couldnt find anyone having the same problem...
We already replaced the battery for a new one, didnt solve anything and i also flashed a new stock rom for her, didnt help either
Hope someone can help me!
Thx !
you run lots of apps which runs in background ? or you have many widgets? It might one of the reasons
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riecardow93 said:
Hello,
When I charge the phone after the game it goes from 17 to 54% in like 5 minutes, how the hell is this possible? Searched google and XDA but couldnt find anyone having the same problem...
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Its normal with our ace that is goes straight up to 50-60% in 5 mins and after disconnecting comes straight down...
And for battery drain..whatsapp and fruit ninja uses too much of battery in stock roms...flash a battery friendly rom and ur complaint will b gone..
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Flash Stocklite or Xperiatized ROM. Both are great + battery life is better
I'll go for StockLite v6 definitely .. You'll get awesome battery plus you'll also get a pretty good performance ..
Alright! Will try to flash a custom rom when i get home
Thanks for the replys!
riecardow93 said:
Hello,
My mom uses a samsung galaxy ace and the battery life is super bad.
When she takes her phone to work around 07:00 its empty at around 13:00. All she does on work with her phone is using whatsapp. When shes at home she plays fruit ninja, lets say her battery is about 70% at that time. She plays for about 20 minutes and when she stops playing its on 17%. When I charge the phone after the game it goes from 17 to 54% in like 5 minutes, how the hell is this possible? Searched google and XDA but couldnt find anyone having the same problem...
We already replaced the battery for a new one, didnt solve anything and i also flashed a new stock rom for her, didnt help either
Hope someone can help me!
Thx !
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Yeah, the battery meter on the Ace is faulty. And this battery isn't meant to be used constantly otherwise you'll get a huge drain. You can't treat a mid range like a high end phone. Its only 1350mAh, to get the usage you need, you'll probably need around 2100mAh like the S3. There's no such battery for the Ace so you can't.
If she turns off 3G and uses Edge, it'll double the battery. Its the same thing, just connection is slower. Now if she takes gaming out of the equation, she'll get around 7+ hrs of battery. Realize I calculated that without any widgets that require background processes, no live wallpapers, and no other things besides the main app you're using.
Also try to flash a new rom with good battery(can only be done if phone I'd rooted though!) And try Battery calibration (after flashing a new rom)
Sent from Galaxy Ace!
i have the same issue
i guess u need to replace ur battery
because i tried to stop all the apps and the services and Wifi and GPS and BT , almost everything
and its still draining .
You need to replace your battery with a new battery. Your current battery is nearly-dying. Your phone and ROM are both ok! Don't worry about it.
Just replace the old battery with a good quality new one and you will be good for another few months.
Hi Everyone,
Sorry if there are some posts regards to this thread of mine.... but I am frustrated with my Galaxy Note 5 for being way to lagging and battery life is horrible. Anyone can help me?
BTW Im new in XDA and any rooting/software related issues
fouler32 said:
Hi Everyone,
Sorry if there are some posts regards to this thread of mine.... but I am frustrated with my Galaxy Note 5 for being way to lagging and battery life is horrible. Anyone can help me?
BTW Im new in XDA and any rooting/software related issues
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Just do a factory reset o use Smart Switch to reinstall firmare. Battery life will alway be horrible and it will get worse, remember: This phones are almost 3 years old, phones are disposable.
I got this note 8 the other day off of letgo for a pretty sweet deal for $400. Its in pretty good condition performs well with the normal Samsung lag you get with every samsung phone no matter what people say samsung phones will always lag. Lol but the 3 hours of usage just feels like this should be yesterdays news. Is it supposed to be this way?
Edit: Okay, I feel really dumb. Lol I was only getting 3 around 3 and a half hours of usage with high performance on. Now that I got the mid power saving on it's doing way better. I'm sitting at 60% and my SOT is 2 hours and 15 min. Now I know my battery isnt messed up. Sorry guys. I should have known you can't get great battery life on high performance. I was scared I got a faulty note 8 from Letgo. Lol
Class_of_punk26 said:
I got this note 8 the other day off of letgo for a pretty sweet deal for $400. Its in pretty good condition performs well with the normal Samsung lag you get with every samsung phone no matter what people say samsung phones will always lag. Lol but the 3 hours of usage just feels like this should be yesterdays news. Is it supposed to be this way?
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I get around 7hrs total usage (3hrs SOT) on around 20hrs average.
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I can easily get around a days usage even with some gaming sessions. Sounds like the battery on your device maybe starting to fail and needs replaced. However I would recommend that you backup all the data on your device boot your device into Recovery Mode, wipe the cache partition and perform a hard factory reset.
I really hate having to do that. Everyone I know who goes and gets there battery replaced or whatever repairs done comes back with more problems before. Lol but I guess I could take the risk. It was only $400. Lol oh I cant back up everything. Just I can backup some things. I haven't rooted yet. But maybe I will in the future. I kinda feel like it doesnt need the root.
Unrooted people can get up to 10h of sot or 8-9 days of standby.
Use samsung system app disaber ( or something like that from google play ) . app does what it says, disable system apps without deleting them using administrator privileges. It has button to disable all "bloatware" but after that u wont be able to use animated wallpaper etc. So basicly battery eating stuff.
Disable samsung cloud, samsung pay, secured, samsung health and some other stuff u dont really use. Turn on battery saving mode in order to lower processor's power by 20% and set black colours. Make sure u dont have any trash working in background like fb, mess, wazupp etc. Make sure u delete them since samsung doesnt support killing apps in background completly. Just while u turn off ur screen. U can always use lucky patcher and disable permission to work all the time in background. It will prevent app from turning itself on after force closing it or dozing it. Fb crash after doing that . After all of that, u should get around 9-10h of sot on browser or phone, no games or videos ( pornhub too )
Rooted user? kernel auditur wont do much on battery saving mode. Best battery 4 me was on lightrom. Around 12-13h of sot. Same proccesses like 4 unrooted people but here u can use amplify to kill everything with google play and google play services. On black background ( aka nightmode supported in few browser ) u can get up to 12h of sot with browser or if u care ONLY about standby mode. My device was eatting about 7% of battery per 24h on ironman rom. But nougat, oreo has more stuff and eat more battery. Even if u install it , U wont be able to use it. Samsung lock older roms if they dont run newest kernel so right after first reboot with that rom = binaries lock. If u want ironman rom, some1 might need to update kernel source and make it working on nougat.
My opinnion only. Might not agree with it or no, just dont be **** to me cuz I said something plz
I get 8 hours of SOT, always use high performance mode and have zero lag.
Have you done a hard reset and set up as new?
Class_of_punk26 said:
I really hate having to do that. Everyone I know who goes and gets there battery replaced or whatever repairs done comes back with more problems before. Lol but I guess I could take the risk. It was only $400. Lol oh I cant back up everything. Just I can backup some things. I haven't rooted yet. But maybe I will in the future. I kinda feel like it doesnt need the root.
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My advice would be to research the repair specialist before taking your device to them for any repairs. Also ask them if they will provide a guarantee for the repairs performed on your device.
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My advice would be to research the repair specialist before taking your device to them for any repairs. Also ask them if they will provide a guarantee for the repairs performed on your device.
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Well I called CellPhone Repair. They told me it would be about 80 bucks to replace the battery which comes with a year warranty. I feel like I should wait for the note 10 to release then buy the note 9.
Edit: I'll just go with it and hope it's the battery and not the phone. Had a bad experience back with the note 1 it would go from 100% to 0% in 2 hours no matter what you did whether the screen was off or not. I bought a new battery for it and it was the same issue. Lol
This just makes me wanna sell the note 4 for $400 and buy the note 9.
How do I use this? Everytime i turn it on and optimize all the apps. Whenever I go back into it they are back off again. If I can figure out how to keep it on It just might actually fix my problem.
I fixed my phone! So I booted into safe mode today just to see if it was gonna have problems like it was. Turns out it was actually not draining nowhere near as bad. So that tells me it was a third party app. I think someone on here told me to check that too sorry I have A.D.D. but thanks to the one who told me. Turns out it was Facebook and messenger. So I replaced them with the lite versions. Normally at around an hour and a half to an hour and 45 min I'm at 50% so this tells me it wasn't the battery after all!
So her is my end results. I doubled my battery life only by replacing Facebook and messenger with the lite versions. Now I will not be buying the note 9 in September. Lol