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Heya guys,
I've got the ever present upgrade itch that everyone here must know about......
I'm really looking into a good phone camera that has decent battery life as well since I can't always bring me DSLR with me around all the time.
How development and everything for the One X? Battery life? I'm looking specifically at the international version.
Thanks
Development is great. Some solid roms for this device within the first month. Can't imagine what it will be like in half a year or when there's an s-off exploit found. Obviously the phone has some great attraction for some of the features it carries and the design.
On ARHD rom right now I get about 18-22 hours of battery life moderate usage, light usage a couple of days, and heavy usage about 10 hours. I'm very satisfied with this phone. Some other people can drop there comments and let you know; also, there's an official reviews thread you should probably check out.
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UnlockedNand said:
Development is great. Some solid roms for this device within the first month. Can't imagine what it will be like in half a year or when there's an s-off exploit found. Obviously the phone has some great attraction for some of the features it carries and the design.
On ARHD rom right now I get about 18-22 hours of battery life moderate usage, light usage a couple of days, and heavy usage about 10 hours. I'm very satisfied with this phone. Some other people can drop there comments and let you know; also, there's an official reviews thread you should probably check out.
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whats the screen time like when you use it heavily (as according to above 10hrs phone on but how long for screen?)
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any major bugs? I'd like to try sense out as the only HTC phone that I've used was my mum's Desire Z that I automatically flashed CM7 on back when she had it.
I've "heard" that there are some screen flickering issues and launcher reloading.....
any comments would be greatly appreciated
I've had my One X for 1.5 weeks now and zero problems whatsoever I get about 12-13hrs from the battery with 3-4h screentime
droid_does said:
Heya guys,
I've got the ever present upgrade itch that everyone here must know about......
I'm really looking into a good phone camera that has decent battery life as well since I can't always bring me DSLR with me around all the time.
How development and everything for the One X? Battery life? I'm looking specifically at the international version.
Thanks
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Here's some info on battery life. It's better than the GN. But the GN has the option of extended and replacable batteries which the One X doesn't.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25725630&postcount=25
As for the camera, I don't think it's finished yet. There's been discussion about noise and compression. Some of the pics I've taken in iffy light haven't been that great. The h/w's there I think the s/w needs some tweaking. If you could live with the camera on the GN the One X will be a step up.
BarryH_GEG said:
Here's some info on battery life. It's better than the GN. But the GN has the option of extended and replacable batteries which the One X doesn't.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25725630&postcount=25
As for the camera, I don't think it's finished yet. There's been discussion about noise and compression. Some of the pics I've taken in iffy light haven't been that great. The h/w's there I think the s/w needs some tweaking. If you could live with the camera on the GN the One X will be a step up.
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Ahhh thanks. But i guess i could circumnavigate the integrated battery by having an external portable battery pack....hmmmm
Tough choice. I'll wait for some more comments and opinions first
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droid_does said:
Ahhh thanks. But i guess i could circumnavigate the integrated battery by having an external portable battery pack....hmmmm
Tough choice. I'll wait for some more comments and opinions first
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Watch reviews and videos about the s3 vs One x phones..then make your decision. I would say One X. Good phone solid great specs and if you are a gamer you will be happy with the Tegra 3 chip...Battery life is solid so far no complaints. Development i am sure it will pick up...So its down to you my friend
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Watch reviews and videos about the s3 vs One x phones..then make your decision. I would say One X. Good phone solid great specs and if you are a gamer you will be happy with the Tegra 3 chip...Battery life is solid so far no complaints. Development i am sure it will pick up...So its down to you my friend
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I'm definitely let down by the S3....its seems so similar in many ways to the GNexus that I wouldn't consider it as an "upgrade". I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to people without smartphones though.
the HTCOX screams of something desirable to me.......still hesitant though right now
keep those comments flowing in please
droid_does said:
whats the screen time like when you use it heavily (as according to above 10hrs phone on but how long for screen?)
hmmm
any major bugs? I'd like to try sense out as the only HTC phone that I've used was my mum's Desire Z that I automatically flashed CM7 on back when she had it.
I've "heard" that there are some screen flickering issues and launcher reloading.....
any comments would be greatly appreciated
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The 10 hours probably around 5-6 hours of continuous screen display running videos, games, and other tasks. No sense issues at all except for it uses a lot more battery than pure ics. The screen flickering is unconfirmed as to what is the underlying issue (software or hardware) related. HTC is looking into the screen flickering right now, and launcher reloading I've never had.
I'd say wait 1 month.
QC issues iron over time. S-OFF is not ready as yet. The lack of such 'freedom' will be shocking to a GN user.
Custom ROMs for this device are excellent both in quality and quantity. This is a very popular handset, thus community support is very high.
Battery life is really good. Depending on screen usage you can get 1.5 days usage easy. Heavy usage will obviously reduce that by a lot.
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The 10 hours probably around 5-6 hours of continuous screen display running videos, games, and other tasks. No sense issues at all except for it uses a lot more battery than pure ics. The screen flickering is unconfirmed as to what is the underlying issue (software or hardware) related. HTC is looking into the screen flickering right now, and launcher reloading I've never had.
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I'd say wait 1 month.
QC issues iron over time. S-OFF is not ready as yet. The lack of such 'freedom' will be shocking to a GN user.
Custom ROMs for this device are excellent both in quality and quantity. This is a very popular handset, thus community support is very high.
Battery life is really good. Depending on screen usage you can get 1.5 days usage easy. Heavy usage will obviously reduce that by a lot.
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Thanks guys! If anybody has anything else to add please do so
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OK so I have a galaxy nexus and got it on launch back in november. I picked up a one x because I really liked the look of it, but so far I can't decide which phone to keep.
The One X is great because it’s lovely to hold, has a fantastic screen and a very decent camera. But the software lets it down – and that’s not some lazy complaint. I’ve owned the phone for two weeks. Whilst Sense 4.0 is a big improvement over previous versions, I still struggle to find any part of it where it’s better than stock ICS, except perhaps the lockscreen which allows multiple targets. But that functionality is common in custom ICS ROMs anyway.
Stock ICS is, I feel, about as good as Android could be at the moment. This makes having to put up with the unnecessary ‘embellishments’ and changes on the One X is frustrating. HTC’s launcher is also considerably laggier than the stock Android 4.0 launcher, and whilst installing Nova launcher helps, I’m not sure why HTC felt the need to use their own anyway.
I must say I totally agree with The Verge’s conclusion on the One X – with stock ICS, it could be the best Android phone ever. Until then… Im just not sure which phone to keep!
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OK so I have a galaxy nexus and got it on launch back in november. I picked up a one x because I really liked the look of it, but so far I can't decide which phone to keep.
The One X is great because it’s lovely to hold, has a fantastic screen and a very decent camera. But the software lets it down – and that’s not some lazy complaint. I’ve owned the phone for two weeks. Whilst Sense 4.0 is a big improvement over previous versions, I still struggle to find any part of it where it’s better than stock ICS, except perhaps the lockscreen which allows multiple targets. But that functionality is common in custom ICS ROMs anyway.
Stock ICS is, I feel, about as good as Android could be at the moment. This makes having to put up with the unnecessary ‘embellishments’ and changes on the One X is frustrating. HTC’s launcher is also considerably laggier than the stock Android 4.0 launcher, and whilst installing Nova launcher helps, I’m not sure why HTC felt the need to use their own anyway.
I must say I totally agree with The Verge’s conclusion on the One X – with stock ICS, it could be the best Android phone ever. Until then… Im just not sure which phone to keep!
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I'm in the same position, I'm really not sure which one to keep either - I suspect I will still be saying the same in two months time though!
HTC should have gone out on a limb and developed a dual boot - let the users decide whether they want to run sense or stock.
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Bumping this up. Thanks for the replies so far
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I'm in the same position, I'm really not sure which one to keep either - I suspect I will still be saying the same in two months time though!
HTC should have gone out on a limb and developed a dual boot - let the users decide whether they want to run sense or stock.
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Yeah I've had the phone nearly a month and still can't decide! Argh
Someone's developing a CM9 port over at Modaco and it's getting close to finished (just a few bugs left to squash). So if it's good enough, I might just install it and sell the Nexus.
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Yeah I've had the phone nearly a month and still can't decide! Argh
Someone's developing a CM9 port over at Modaco and it's getting close to finished (just a few bugs left to squash). So if it's good enough, I might just install it and sell the Nexus.
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any other comments? battery, camera, screen etc? usability?
I've only used an older version for a few minutes, but on the surface everything works fine. It's mostly just odd bugs they're sorting out now. I'd link the thread, but things are a bit iffy between XDA and the developer at Modaco.
Either way, back on my GNex now and it feels like an old friend. Love this phone.
I'm always a little iffy about all of the phones I buy but I'm sold on the Galaxy Nexus (Maguro). There really is no phone like it. I'm gonna go ahead and do a mini review since I know Gnex owners like seeing positive experiences.
Background: I basically came from an iPhone and a One X. I was an Android purist when I first started my smartphone venture with the myTouch 3G and the Evo 4G. Due to battery life problems and countless defects, I went to the iPhone for a year and found myself incredibly bored. Recently, I purchased the One X, but it was also plagued by manufacturer defects and Sense killed it for me. No use having great hardware on an platform that isn't optimized.
I decided to look into the Gnex because I saw a deal on the Play Store and I love the pure Android experience. I have to say, I've never had a smartphone experience like this. I received the phone quick as hell from Google (two day shipping). From first impressions the hardware looked incredibly well made: no hardware buttons, sleek and well thought out design, etc.
Turned on the phone and I was so happy to see just the Google trademark and the Nexus boot animation with no carrier branding or bloat. The phone has a bright, vivid screen that easily rivals the One X, snappy performance and feels great in the hand. So, as any logical Android power user would do, I unlocked the bootloader, rooted my phone and began flashing to see which setup fit me best.
I finally found my favorite. Right now, I'm on:CyanogenMod 2012-06-13-NIGHTLY-MAGURO with Trinity STABLE65.
Only thing I needed now was to experience daily use of my phone to determine whether or not it was a winner. As of today, I'm sold. I took my phone off the charger yesterday around 10:15 AM to head to the beach. Took pictures, texted, made a few phone calls. Left the beach at 5 PM, went to the mall and ran around the whole mall busting missions using my phone with horrible signal. Left home, got ready to go out, went to a party and spent the night texting, browsing the Internet, taking pictures, and making phone calls. I came home at 5 AM, fell asleep, woke up today at 11 AM, and the phone is still going! 1d 2h turned on with 30% left. I have finally found the phone for me. Not even my One X gave me such good results.
Not only that, pictures at night come out fantastic, to the point that I make my iPhone friends jealous. I removed bootanimation.zip so now I only see the Android logo when the phone boots. I copied modded Sans Serif fonts to my system/fonts folder and now I see Emoji system wide. I tweaked the screen colors, customized my phone to my desire, and I'm still not done making it exactly how I want it.And to top it off, everyone asks me about my phone. When they hold it they can't believe how light it feels in the hand. When they use it they say "I didn't know Android was this easy to use."
So yeah, thats my experience with the Gnex and I thought you all might like seeing it. I hope you guys have similar experiences. I'm loving my Gnex. Cheers!
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dimgl said:
I purchased the One X, but it was also plagued by manufacturer defects and Sense killed it for me.
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I went from the Desire to the Desire HD, and the build quality of the DHD was appalling. I sold it rooted about a week later and spent another happy 22 months with my Desire before upgrading to the Nexus.
I'd like to give the SGS III a go, but I just can't be bothered with the home button and the dedicated soft keys, I'm sure you can deactivate them, but I am made up with Black Ice without a nav bar, LMT is the best thing ever invented.
Im on the fence about getting this phone from the play store just like you. That battety life seems amazing but people on here say that the gsm galaxy nexus has terrible battery life. I really want to pull the trigger though. And hows your reception? Are you on tmobile or att?
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Toad858 said:
but people on here say that the gsm galaxy nexus has terrible battery life.
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How can GSM battery life possibly be worse than LTE?
I'm very happy with the battery life I get with my GSM Nexus, compared to any other phone I've owned, it's just as good.
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Im on the fence about getting this phone from the play store just like you. That battety life seems amazing but people on here say that the gsm galaxy nexus has terrible battery life. I really want to pull the trigger though. And hows your reception? Are you on tmobile or att?
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Its just the opposite....GSM has way better life then there cdma version. Lte kills the battery. I'm on T-Mobile and this is the best battery life I've ever seen stock and then when u throw a trinity kernel on it u can easily get a day and a half....and I've had a lot of phones this phone is awesome
Toad858 said:
Im on the fence about getting this phone from the play store just like you. That battety life seems amazing but people on here say that the gsm galaxy nexus has terrible battery life. I really want to pull the trigger though. And hows your reception? Are you on tmobile or att?
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Wtf is up with the misconception about gsm battery life. It's great, and anybody who says otherwise is missing something. The pics below are 30% brightness, data on and syncing entire time. And these results are not abnormal for RAScream + trinity users. Standard size battery.
-Sent from a GSM Galaxy Nexus (RAScream+Trinity).-
I have the verizon cdma version, and while it may not get as good battery life as the gsm version, it's still pretty good. You just have to find a rom/kernel combo that you and your phone likes. On average I get about 2-3 hours of screen time, depending on what I'm doing, and lasts a full day.
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Wtf is up with the misconception about gsm battery life. It's great, and anybody who says otherwise is missing something. The pics below are 30% brightness, data on and syncing entire time. And these results are not abnormal for RAScream + trinity users. Standard size battery.
-Sent from a GSM Galaxy Nexus (RAScream+Trinity).-
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I'm about to try out Rascream, I've been hearing good things about it, and it's about the only rom I haven't tried yet. I personally don't like all the extra's the other roms through in, because I never use them.
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I have the verizon cdma version, and while it may not get as good battery life as the gsm version, it's still pretty good. You just have to find a rom/kernel combo that you and your phone likes. On average I get about 2-3 hours of screen time, depending on what I'm doing, and lasts a full day.
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I'm about to try out Rascream, I've been hearing good things about it, and it's about the only rom I haven't tried yet. I personally don't like all the extra's the other roms through in, because I never use them.
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You will love it. So fast and stable. What more you expect ? Rascream + trinity...rocks!!!
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I'm about to try out Rascream, I've been hearing good things about it, and it's about the only rom I haven't tried yet. I personally don't like all the extra's the other roms through in, because I never use them.
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I highly recommend it. you will not regret trying it!
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What is Rascream?
Rascream is a "stockish" ROM with a some added fuctionality (like status bar power widget & modifiable navbar) there is no official thread but discussion on this ROM take place in the Trinity kernel thread in the GSM dev section
The phone has been out over 7 months, and we're still getting "mini reviews?" As much as I love my Nexus, it's old news. The GS3 is the new king, and the Nexus is yesterday's new toy.
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TheBiles said:
The phone has been out over 7 months, and we're still getting "mini reviews?" As much as I love my Nexus, it's old news. The GS3 is the new king, and the Nexus is yesterday's new toy.
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There's always one guy who wants to trash the party.
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dimgl said:
There's always one guy who wants to trash the party.
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Sorry that the party is pretty old.
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The phone has been out over 7 months, and we're still getting "mini reviews?" As much as I love my Nexus, it's old news. The GS3 is the new king, and the Nexus is yesterday's new toy.
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Not all countries launched the phone on the same date. Besides, not everybody is willing to pay the price difference for a SGS3, the Gnex still can deal with any app with no problems, the dev support for a Nexus Device has no rival.
So yes, reviews at this point in time are still very welcome.
I bought the GNexus about 20 days ago, my first nexus and I don't think I can go back to a no nexus phone. The pure android experience and this community are awesome.
I have tried AOKP+ Franco, Rascream + Trinity and for me rascream + Franco has delivered the best performance.
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Not all countries launched the phone on the same date. Besides, not everybody is willing to pay the price difference for a SGS3, the Gnex still can deal with any app with no problems, the dev support for a Nexus Device has no rival.
So yes, reviews at this point in time are still very welcome.
I bought the GNexus about 20 days ago, my first nexus and I don't think I can go back to a no nexus phone. The pure android experience and this community are awesome.
I have tried AOKP+ Franco, Rascream + Trinity and for me rascream + Franco has delivered the best performance.
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just cause you like pure android that doesn't mean touchwiz suck. it has its pros and cons. and besides that S3 has better hardware as well and newer so without a questions its the hot topic. i know you bought yours 20 days ago but thats actually very late.. Nexus is old (got mine in Feb) and S3 is new. just have to accept it.
LTE Gnex, standard battery and Trinity ZM3 kernel. Hard to beat that with any phone and definitely any Android I've ever owned.
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just cause you like pure android that doesn't mean touchwiz suck. it has its pros and cons. and besides that S3 has better hardware as well and newer so without a questions its the hot topic. i know you bought yours 20 days ago but thats actually very late.. Nexus is old (got mine in Feb) and S3 is new. just have to accept it.
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What will get your further google or Samsung ?
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Sorry that the party is pretty old.
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Then go to the new party and leave this one alone.
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Then go to the new party and leave this one alone.
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+1. I switched from a Sprint E4GT to my GSM GNex a few weeks ago and I'm still floored by this phone. No need for folks to be buzzkills.
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So I've been with my Captivate for two years or so now, with an iPhone 4S in between uses. I must admit, I think I liked my iPhone 4S better simply because of the speed, but otherwise I love Android. Now I'm switching to the GNex and I'm pretty excited.
First, I'd like to ask what kernels you guys have had the best experience with the stock JB update. This includes battery life and speed. Any extra features of the kernel are also a plus. If your favorite has extras that you enjoy, tell me about them!
Also, is it worth buying an extended battery? I'm a moderate to heavy user of my phone, and my Captivate barely does a good job at staying alive for a day when I actually use it.
Anyway, tell me about your experience with the GNex! What phone did you come from? Why do you like it better? What problems have you had? I'd like to hear your stories.
Thanks.
I too came from a captivate. The difference is night and day. With the captivate, i was trying new roms every week and I was never satisfied. But the gnex, everything just works. Ive had the gnex for almost two months and i havnt once felt the need to root or load a rom or kernel. Im on stock JB 4.1.1 and am loving it. The battery destroys the one on the captivate. I can easliy go a day and a half with moderate usage. And im getting about 3.5 mbps down with att her in san diego.
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I too came from a captivate. The difference is night and day. With the captivate, i was trying new roms every week and I was never satisfied. But the gnex, everything just works. Ive had the gnex for almost two months and i havnt once felt the need to root or load a rom or kernel. Im on stock JB 4.1.1 and am loving it. The battery destroys the one on the captivate. I can easliy go a day and a half with moderate usage. And im getting about 3.5 mbps down with att her in san diego.
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Awesome to hear it! I can totally relate with the trying new ROMs practically every week just to find something I actually liked. I do plan on rooting my GNex, but I'm not entirely sure about flashing a kernel, but I'll have to wait and see. And that's good about the battery, I'm about fed up with my Captivate's failing battery. You're all the way on the other side of the country, so I'm not so sure how those speeds will reflect here, but that's good to know! I'm going to be using the Straight Talk service, but they run on AT&T's bandwidth, so it's all the same.
Are you content with what you paid for? The galaxy s3 is an amazing device, but are you happy with it? would you buy it again? just wondering about your thoughts on the device... are you happy with development and roms on the device? Was it worth it?
Yes, and no. I loved my s3 when I 1st got it but after awhile I got bored of it. I picked this phone because of development and ROMs. That's why I didn't bother with the droid dna. Now that I look at the dna forums I wish I could find someone to trade :/
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I like it, would rather s3 than s4, because of svdo only working with 4g. I'm overall super happy with the S3.
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I picked one up for my wife in December for 50$ I had a Gnex which I was happy with. Most of the people I knew from the OG EPIC4G where here already. I played with my wife's phone for two hours went back to the store and got myself one. I am really happy with its performance, development here here and the fact it just a great piece of hardware.
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I would but it again. Several times over. I feel that all other phones are way too overpriced for the random extras they put in.
As someone stated in a thread in general, if you remove all the little software additions the S4 has, you get the S3.
I'm completely happy! Bought me and my wife one on black Friday. I came from HTC evo3d. I'm outta town nightly and don't always have 4g so being able to surf the Web and talk is a huge bonus. I was considering a gs4 till I found out it couldn't do that. The Roms here are great also....not to mention the Devs who help out noobs like me on a daily basis. Finally talked my wife into rooting and now she's on moar and is always showing what she can do. So the answer is yes totally happy. Can't beat two s3s for 80 bucks
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I would get it again in a heartbeat . One of the Best Devices out when I got it, and still one of the best out there. It's never disappointed me.
I would buy it over and over... S4 is only slightly better, and we are getting alot of those features (If we haven't already thanks to our great dev community). So why spend the extra $$$? The other thing that makes this phone what it is..happens to be our Devs... We have a talented team of devs floating around here for the S3, they give us all the options and customization features you could really want. No need to seek out another phone after that fact.
I bought my gs3 and sold my evo lte last November and I'm happy with it. I've had one issue with the one I bought and got a replacement and all has been good for 6 months. This is the first phone I've owned that hasn't made me look for another (the grass is greener syndrome). I'm going to keep it until my upgrade which will be just in time for the gs5.
my wife and i each got one the day after thanksgiving for $0.99 each if we renewed our sprint contract. So yeah I'm happy with what i paid for this phone. I love it although i think i may tinker too much with it, i'm constantly switching roms, adding mods, and tweaking it trying to find the perfect experiance for me ( i don't think that is ever going to happen )
I would absolutely buy this phone again. It is my 1st Android device and it has been amazing to learn things on. I've looked around and it seems that this is one of the easiest phones to root and flash ROMs on. Plus the dev support here for this device has been awesome.
Heck Yes ! Got as a gift this past Father's Day ( $50 @ BestBuy ) and we have LOTS of ROMs to choose from ... and like Ed mentioned earlier , most of our buddies from OG EPIC4G land have this phone ( I just happened to be the last straggler to upgrade )
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Yeah, pretty happy with it. I think it's still a relevant phone, and I'm planning on getting a couple of years out of it.
I'm happy and I would do it again. I only paid 99 cents for this GS3 so I'd say I got my money's worth by the time I turned it on.
I came from the evo3d and I can't think of one area that the 3d beats the GS3. The GS3 battery is way better, the screen is bigger, the screen is brighter, it's smarter, more mem, more ram, better ui, lte, better development, easier to root, I could probably go on.
Only drawback I've noticed about the GS3 is that it seems like there's more of them out there than iPhones,
Yes I am very happy with it, it's handles opened apps very well even tried to keep opening NFS most wanted and some others apps in my phone memory and it's handled it absolutely with no lag and without any redraws.
Only two the biggest minuses that I don't like it's battery and scrolling lag in some apps. So my main problem is not RAM memory but battery it's drains so fast.
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Yes I am very happy with it, it's handles opened apps very well even tried to keep opening NFS most wanted and some others apps in my phone memory and it's handled it absolutely with no lag and without any redraws.
Only two the biggest minuses that I don't like it's battery and scrolling lag in some apps. So my main problem is not RAM memory but battery it's drains so fast.
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Really? My battery lasts about 12-14 hours with around 4 hours screen on time.
EDIT: Stock battery too.
CNexus said:
Really? My battery lasts about 12-14 hours with around 4 hours screen on time.
EDIT: Stock battery too.
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So you're lucky then and my battery dies in approx 8-7 hours on hard usage.
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So you're lucky then and my battery dies in approx 8-7 hours on hard usage.
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No he's not lucky, he's learned to take advantage of XDA and all the information found here. There are lots of tweaks and kernel changes that can extend your battery life. In conjunction with some great apps like Greenify. I average 15 to 16 hrs with 4 to 5 hrs on screen time on a stock battery as well. There are many here who do. You should do a little research you could profit from it.
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The S2 was a good phone for it's time and the display is still pretty nice compared to many phones available now. But the battery life is really atrocious compared to the newer devices. I was using an Alcatel OneTouch Fierce before but I put it in my pocket with my keys and shattered the screen so I pulled the S2 out of a drawer and starting using it again. I loaded a couple of custom ROMs and currently have ParanoidAndroid 4.4 RC1.
What I have noticed is that both the screen and the GPS both take a ton of battery on the S2. On the Alcatel, the screen was down usually at the bottom of the list of things using battery. On the S2 it is always at the top of the list. I have the S2 screen turned down to minimum brightness, which is fine for indoor usage, and also set the screen timeout to 15 seconds, but still the consumption issues persist.
I do a lot of fitness logging and the most I have been able to log on the S2 is around 40 miles of bike riding until the battery runs out. This is from starting with the battery in the mid 90s percentage. With the Alcatel phone I had been able to data log over 200K/125miles before running out of battery.
Saturday I was out in the sticks riding my bike. I put it in airplane mode to save battery in case I needed to call home. After the 44 mile stop at a country store, I forgot to put it back in airplane mode and by the time we went another 30 miles to the next food stop (about 2 hours) the phone had drained from 70% to 14% percent. And I wasn't even using it, it was just riding along in my pocket as I pedaled.
Even with just web surfing on 4G data or WiFi takes a lot of battery. Seems like I can play with the phone for 30 minutes and the battery goes down at least 20%.
On top of this I've also been having problems with lockups. On the first ROM I tried, Liquid Smooth, it was getting android.systemui crashes pretty often. But if I waited a while, the system would right itself and I would be able to keep on going. When I first installed PA it was doing great but now I'm getting random lockups as well. On PA the lockups require a hard boot to fix. Perhaps a hardware issue, who knows. The S2 has not been dropped and is in excellent condition, but I suppose that's neither here nor there.
If it was just the battery consumption issues, I could try an extended battery and see how that went. But in the end I decided that I was going to bite the bullet and get a new phone. I thought about a refurb S4, or Nexus 4 which were both under $300, but in the end I went with the LG G2 as it was less than $400 new from T-Mobile direct.
Farewell Galaxy S2, your days are numbered.
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My wife has a s2 t989 running cm 10.1.3 with a new anker 2200 battery. Her phone flies, zero lag. And Her battery gets her through the day. This phone is a old little beast.
Lokke9191 said:
My wife has a s2 t989 running cm 10.1.3 with a new anker 2200 battery. Her phone flies, zero lag. And Her battery gets her through the day. This phone is a old little beast.
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If it wasn't for the lockups, I might have tried a new or larger battery. The battery will last all day as is if you don't ask the phone to do anything and you have good signal. The screen and the GPS use so much power on this phone though. It's just older silicon.
I agree it's still a fast phone when you use a cm10 or cm11 ROM. It's just not meeting my needs.
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brons2 said:
If it wasn't for the lockups, I might have tried a new or larger battery. The battery will last all day as is if you don't ask the phone to do anything and you have good signal. The screen and the GPS use so much power on this phone though. It's just older silicon.
I agree it's still a fast phone when you use a cm10 or cm11 ROM. It's just not meeting my needs.
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Get the M8
Rushing said:
Get the M8
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too expensive!
I ordered an LG G2 for less than $400, and signed up for the payments divided over 2 years. So I'm trading a really old phone for a 1 year old phone
Funny thing is, the S2 has not locked up once since I ordered the new phone. Haha.
I can really relate to your frustration as I have had quite a bit trouble getting great performance out of this device in the 7 months I've had it. I've went through what seems a million ROMs and have had problems with every single one. To the point I believe it was just the phone and not the ROMs. The last month was really bad when CM made a lot of changes that seemed to adversely affect this device. Then I started trying JB ROMs that were even worse than KK ever was. I've had way over 2 years experience flashing ROMs and kernels so in nearly every case I wouldn't say user error was to blame either. That said, after nearly making a coaster out of this thing, PA RC1 really has come to the rescue along with the Wild kernel. Which is why I'm a bit surprised you are not even having good luck with that. The battery drain you describe is very extreme. At the worst my battery drains 3% an hour on standby. I always have everything on, such as Wifi, GPS and high accuracy location reporting too. Not to mention Viper audio mod with super quality driver which uses a chunk of battery as well.
Overall I can typically get 20 to 24 hours on an average weekday. If I use the screen for a couple hours, listen to music, browse the web and make a call or two, more like 10 to 16 hours. At any rate things are good enough I can live with this phone for while now, provided I do myself a favor and leave well enough alone.
i've had my s2 for almost 3 year, i believe, and i know the pain in the ass it can be. the screen issue happens to me, too, and there isn't a solution, so you learn to deal with it. seems like you may have a faulty battery? i still have the stock battery and it doesn't hold up well as it used to. i run carbonrom with wildkernel (testing) and it's not too bad. but it's a dated phone in techie age.
Yea PA RC1 was the best of the ROMs that I tried on the S2. But I've moved on and am super happy with my new phone. The LG G2 is the best phone I've ever had. 3000mAh stock battery, huge screen, blazing fast LTE and I love the volume buttons on the back!
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The T989 may be difficult to deal with but with a few customizations (new battery and rom), it'll be faster.
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The T989 may be difficult to deal with but with a few customizations (new battery and rom), it'll be faster.
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Too late, I already have the new phone and it is way better even with the stock rom. I might update the S2 again though just for kicks when PA goes stable. It probably does need a new battery also but there's no reason to go that route when I have another phone already.
Glad to see I'm not the only one that's having battery problems. It seems as if using Apollo for music and using Messenger to talk to a friend, the battery drains really quickly. Can't wait to upgrade in the near future.
Any custom ROM that i have tried are not to good for the battery life. I think the best ROM so far for battery life is SHADOW 1.5 ROM because it is based on Stock ROM and has the Power Saver feature.
Now i am using CM 11 and loving it, the features and speed are incredible. Thanks CM Team for your great work.:good:
The T989 is one of the best phones in his time. Now is almost obsolete, we grow ups, every months there are lots of new devices, sooner or late the time will come when we will let go the T989 and have a newer one. It's like a childhood girlfriend experience. I now have the Moto G LTE version, I keep my T989 in my archived electronic things, he is simple something not to forget.
I gave my old S2 to my wife after I got my Note 3. At the time all the Jellybean ROM's for it were unstable, so I put the Jedi ROM on it. For some reason it was ridiculously slow, despite being based on the stock ICS ROM. I had figured the phone's age was just showing and didn't think much about it.
Recently my wife asked me to upgrade the ROM on her tablet to KitKat, so I figured I would do her phone as well. To my surprise, KiKat runs amazingly smooth on the S2 - especially with Wild kernel (1.89GHz overclock + sio governor). Tried both SlimKat and Carbon. It's just liquid smooth and feels totally like a new phone.
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I gave my old S2 to my wife after I got my Note 3. At the time all the Jellybean ROM's for it were unstable, so I put the Jedi ROM on it. For some reason it was ridiculously slow, despite being based on the stock ICS ROM. I had figured the phone's age was just showing and didn't think much about it.
Recently my wife asked me to upgrade the ROM on her tablet to KitKat, so I figured I would do her phone as well. To my surprise, KiKat runs amazingly smooth on the S2 - especially with Wild kernel (1.89GHz overclock + sio governor). Tried both SlimKat and Carbon. It's just liquid smooth and feels totally like a new phone.
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is really surprising how kitkat can give new life to this old phones.. I've changed my T989 for a nexus 4 as a daily driver but still keep the S2 as a work phone, after using the AOSP of the nexus4 I tryied evervolv in a MyTouch 4G and really liked it then though of trying that on the S2 and wow that was an improvement. right know Im currently using Evervolv kitkat 4.4.4 with Cl3kerner on the T989 and I tell you is a really good combination if not perfect.
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I love this phone much like you guys but it's time for the sweet prince to nap!
One of the issues I had a few months ago is that my power button got stuck. My device kept rebooting every few minutes to the only option was to open up the phone and remove the power button entirely. This fixed my issue but now the only way to turn the phone on when it dies (or turns off due to crashes!!) is by plugging it via USB and going into download mode then cancelling. Talk about a hassle!
I also got some dust particles (I think?) on my camera lens so I have several black dots whenever I take a picture.
My battery life is also HORRIBLE. I can relate to OP. My phone can barely make it to lunch let alone get through a full day. If I want to get through a full day, brightness needs to be low, bluetooth/wifi/data/gps/screen rotate all need to be off and I can't expect much screen on time. Basically, I use my phone for communication (texting, calling, etc) and for listening to music. Nothing else really. I might also try flashing another CM rom. I've tried KitKat CM roms but they are all incredibly laggy, so I don't know. Perhaps a new battery could fix this but it's too late.
(By the way, if anyone can recommend a good KitKat rom [preferably CM based], I'd appreciate it. I plan on giving this away to someone who will mainly use it to listen to music, web browse, read. Nothing too major but I'd like to update it as much as possible before giving it away.)
Although there a number of problems, this phone has lasted me 2.5 years. I got it in May of 2012, about 6 months or so after launch. That couples with Cyanogenmod has given me one hell of an experience. This phone, without a doubt, has been one of the best phones I've owned. It just works, in spite of all odds. Heck, I've had it for several months with all of these issues and it can still go until the end of the year (or longer, who knows). But all good things must come to an end.
So good night sweet prince. You were amazing, will never forget! Also, thanks Cyanogenmod for supporting this device! Thank you devs and fellow T989 users for all the support!
As far as the future goes, I am putting all my eggs in one basket and hoping that the Nexus 6/X is solid. There are rumours that it is going to be nearly 6" which is just too big for me to use reasonably. I also considered the Note 4, but honestly, after almost 2 years of using Cyanogenmod, it's very difficult to go back to TouchWiz. The other phone I have considered is the Moto X (2014). If none of these work, I might settle for last year's Nexus 5. Who knows! All I know is that I'm getting a new phone soon!
Try also the new CM11 by Sultanxda:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...rom-kernel-unofficial-cyanogenmod-11-t2885259
Seems to give best battery life for this device.
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Try also the new CM11 by Sultanxda:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...rom-kernel-unofficial-cyanogenmod-11-t2885259
Seems to give best battery life for this device.
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Absolutely, I no longer feel anything like I did when I posted the previous comment in this thread. I'm not ashamed to own this device anymore, LOL. Sultan did things with his kernel that made CM11 stable & fully optimized for the Hercules.
tuxx1337 said:
Try also the new CM11 by Sultanxda:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...rom-kernel-unofficial-cyanogenmod-11-t2885259
Seems to give best battery life for this device.
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thanks for the suggestion! i was thinking about changing the ROM for my Hercules and this seems like a really good choice..