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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] drksilenc:
ill prbly have both the s3 and 1x also you do realize this is a dualcore a15 not an a9 and the lte chip is built in so MUCH better battery life. This is a Krait http://www.anandtech.com/show/4170/qualcomms-announces-krait-cpu-the-successor-to-scorpion

it is one bad piece of silicon.

Also with its upgraded graphics it may not be as fast as the exy gen 2 but seeing as how it will be a much more common chip for both at&t sprint and prbly verizon this will make for much faster rom development between the 3 as only the modem should be different.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] niv3d:
Nice I've never owned an HTC but I have always liked them, this phone looks sweet!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nabbed:
HTC has one big problem. Some of their drivers have been abysmal in the past.

They put together nice hardware, always. Then they don't use its features. Like gpu acceleration.

I've always owned htc devices since original HTC Touch. Epic Touch was my first Sammy device. And it's like night and day in terms of how snappy it is, compared to say - evo 3d (which I still own, and just used it for about 3 weeks when my old epic touch was in repair.)

Even those T-mob gs2 are apparently much snappier than anything HTC put out with the same scorpion chipset - Sammy just know to properly optimize drivers and deliver the full power of the hardware.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] brooksyx:
Looks like a nice device but I think I will be sticking with my epic touch for a while.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] drksilenc:
nabbed you also cant forget sense was not gpu aceled thats part of it. even if they had good drivers. it wouldnt of made a diff
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] iSaint:
Ewww no best option is

Gnex > SGS3 > The next Nexus > SGS4

^ See the cycle ._.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nabbed:
GN is a downgrade compared to Epic touch - slower gpu and lower res camera.

This design decision by Google has always baffled me - let's make our brand new flagship phone slower than the 10 months old phone by the same manufacturer.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kc_exactly:
Just wanted to chime in.

1. Quad Core is not actually always better. The phone OS is not optimized for it yet. So, you are really running a 4 cylinder engine on 2. Plus, the current quad cores use the previous generations technology. I read an article that said the new s4 processors are 40 percent more powerful per core over the tegra 3. So, this dual core is faster and more advanced than the tegra 3.

Another way to look at it is the 4 banger in my AUDI is faster than the V6 in your Taurus.

2. The new phone doesn't look anything like the one in the pic. That is a One X. Sprint is not getting the ONE X.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] iSaint:
Like the Post above me explains google chooses hardware that best fits and utilizes their software ...

Why do you think the iPhone has ****ty specs but is still one of (if not the best) smartphone on the market ?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nabbed:
Using lower spec hardware is better? You now assemble hardware to fit the software?

"Oh yeah, this 5mp camera is much hotter than that cranky old 8mp camera!

Oh wait, the image quality is worse? But you see, the lower the megapixel count, the faster it snaps."

Iphone has bad hardware but is one of the best, if not the best, phones?

Man, it's like you take logic and fact, then turn it all upside down.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] iSaint:
.. Hardware isn't everything... :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] killakarl:
Another pittsburgher here, I am going to wait for the s3 also. The one x looks great but the s3 will probably be alot more optimized. I just hope they put out the white one at launch instead of waiting a month or two after launch.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bbedward:
the iPhone has really good hardware. Besides that point, the primary reason iOS performs so well (besides the steller hardware) is that that iOS does more RealTime prioritizing. It essentially gives the current task top priority, which is why iOS can't do real multi tasking, they suspend apps and then resume them as needed (Android does this too, albeit slightly different - onPause onResume, etc).

So the combination of the iPhone's good hardware with high prio. for the foreground tasks is why their OS is super snappy (this could be called great design, and they definitely utilize their hardware to the max for rendering effects and what not)

It has nothing to do with Objective-C vs Java either, as some people think. Ever since the dalvik VM has adopted JIT, the performance differences between the languages is minimal ;)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] shabbypenguin:
i hate to break it to you but megapixels doesnt equal image quality, my nexus s 4g blows the water out of my photons 8mp camera. samsung makes really decent cameras. same goes for teh iphone, it has hands down one of the BEST image sensors in the market for phones.

so even though the iphone 4's camera is 5MP's i would honestly stack it up against almost any android phone currently out in terms of picture quality. now if your looking for bigger images then yea grab that 8mp camera.

the reason why apple doesnt need to have the best hardware out there every 6 months is because they only have at most 6 (current gen iphone, ipad and itouch plus previous gen) platforms to write iOS for, and they do a VERY good job of optimizing the code for em all. companies like samsung or htc have a crapload of devices flooding the market each one more different than the last thus making it hard to make sure ics runs amazingly great on one platform and then starting the next. despite having older hardware and crappy features (IMO) the iphone isnt still around because its a social thing, there is actually some benefits.

P.S. i would like to state that i am a former iphone 3g owner, and i will never go back to that crap, if android collapses ill go wp7 before ios again
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chandlerw88:
No thanks. I like seeing my phone screen in the day time
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] phatmanxxl:
Im sold if the bootloader is unlocked and it comes in black.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ydoucare:
Neither are benchmarks. I've compared my E4GT side by side with my GF's iPhone 4s and the E4GT is consistently faster in real-world browser tests despite the benchmark results above.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] iSaint:
Obviously GSG2 is better :p

Im just saying that even with lower specs than some devices on the list it still holds its ground :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bbedward:
False, but both of those benchmarks are primarily javascript and the iOS browser IS faster for that prior to honeycomb.

Those benchmarks are also outdated, look at the Tab 8.9, why are the scores so high there? Because of the HW-accelerated browser in android 3.0+.

So when ICS devices roll out there's nearly no difference in browser performance, as they both use use webkit and HW-powa. (The SGSII is high up there too because TWIZ implements HW accel, apparently not as well as google did)

Also very few pages use enough javascript to make much of a difference. I'd expect both browsers to be very similar since they both use WebKit. (Android uses the V8 JS engine too which is great, so i'd expect ICS devices to surpass iOS easily)

edit:

just got 89,559 in browser mark on stock 4.0 browser, so yeah :P
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Power84:
I'm waiting on SIII
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bobturismo:
All specs, benchmarks, megapixels, ramroms aside, those aren't really the main reasons any of us buy a phone, unless all you care about is finding people with iPhones and letting them know your specs are slightly better in some area.

You could argue that the iphone or the GN does something slightly better than the ET, but at the end of the day it's the whole package.

The epic is in the top three (if not numero uno arguably) of cell phones right now, large OLED sceen, high CPU + GPU power, ability to be modified, battery life, etc.

IPhone, blah blah blah, still a small screen.

GN blah blah blah, GPU is lacking.

The ONLY reason that I would consider a new HTC phone is the LTE, I am unfortunately in a MAJOR area that never got 4G hooked up. I still use 4G when I go out of town to vegas and such, which you need it out there because 3g is soo overloaded.

I've owned a sprint ppc-6500 (mogul) and a touch pro 2, both with custom roms and modified. As much as I loved those phones, they were plagued with problems. They had the right idea, they just never took it to the next level.

The EVO phones seem to be holding up better than the older phones, so I doubt the new HTC's are gonna have any major problems.

I was hesitant to buy a phone from a company that makes big screen TV's, but now that I've owned the phone, I think I would wait for the next sammy before trying to sell mine just to get an LTE phone.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] digweed4me:
New galaxy nexus isnt there nexus trumps them all with new ics browser.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] drksilenc:
the main reason i was thinking of getting this as a second phone in the first place was its a new lte device and htc will have the kinks worked out because of the thunderbolt and other verizon gen 1 lte devices.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Whosdaman:
Sprint isn't getting EVDO Rev. B. They haven't even hinted at the realm of possibility of it. There isn't even any proof of it.

And every knew Sprint would be getting a version of the One X for the EVO lineup. That was a given. The only question is what are they going to call it. And if it has LTE it will have a Dual-Core processor in it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
The sprint htc one x evo 4g lte touch looks like it will be a nice phone, but not good enough to replace my sprint samsung galaxy s2 epic touch 4g.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wcr84:
Ill never own another htc device. Have to use the htc method to root and it totally sucks.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ungovernable1977:
103069 in browsermark with stock FC15, some bloat frozen.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] starnostar:
At least recently, I have been less than impressed with HTC products, Samsung seems to have really taken off though. Not to mention sense....uuuuuugh. I'll always prefer stock Android but Touchwiz is still leaps and bounds above sense....not to mention the whole "unlocked bootloader, yet still s-on" fiasco.
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] venkatarajeev131:
"Its recommend to partition your sdcard before flash"

whats the use?..........
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] shortlex:
you can use cwm with the phone or minitool partition wizard with the pc

:)
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] dheeraj (dhlalit11):
the rom maybe containing a2sd script that's why it need a second partition do it there is no harm
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] felipevsw:
What size this partition should be? 100MB is enough?
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] dheeraj (dhlalit11):
atleast 512 mb for ext parttion you should create a swap partition of 256 mb,

swap will replace the ram according to the swappiness set by you
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] felipevsw:
So it should be 2 partitions: one with 512 MB and another with 256 MB... The one with 512 should be formatted ext4? and the other swap (of course)?
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Jinxxed:
Set it as ext2, it's faster.

---------- Post added at 08:15 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:06 PM ----------

Here's some info on how Linux (and thus Android) uses swap. http://www.linux-tutorial.info/modules.php?name=MContent&pageid=89

I wouldn't bother with it on a phone since Linux will just swap unchanged files right back to where they are on the phone storage without the need for a swap file and since it's unlikely that you'll ever multitask large user files on it there really is no need for it.
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] dheeraj (dhlalit11):
swap is optional but it's good to have
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Jinxxed:
For what? Who is changing large data files on their phone? In all likelihood it will cost you more memory to have a swap file than it will save you memory since it won't be used.

Linux won't use it at all if the file in memory hasn't changed since it was last read from storage, it will just swap it back to where it was last read, that is, if you have an app open and more memory is needed linux will first check to see if the file has been changed since last read and since it's an app it will just link it back to where it was read from in the first place rather than to put yet another copy in swap.
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] dheeraj (dhlalit11):
am not talking about swap file am talking about swap partition and if you think there is no need then why are there paid apps like swapper for root and why are people paying for them.

suppose you are playing shadow gun with help of cf3d after the play you find that all the app like launcher background working apps are stopped due to low ram but if you have swap then the app's memory will move to swap partition and it will not close

when I had mini I had a swap partition of 512 MB and it was really working and if you think the life of SD will decrease then you should know that it has a veeeeeery lil effect on life so don't worry there is no harm
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] freakyfriday:
Thank u for this useful thread..
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Jinxxed:
Whether you use a swap file or partition is irrelevant, Linux can use either and they work exactly the same.

In your example, all the apps would be swapped RIGHT BACK TO WHERE THEY ARE STORED since they did not change since last read, the swap would be unused and the apps would still be swapped.

I don't know if it's that you fail to comprehend the simple subject or refuse to read both what i post and what i link to but you are not understanding this.

Of course it won't affect the SD cards lifetime, it won't be used.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iZver:
Hi. I have decided to upgrade my samsung galaxy s2 with miui. Since this is my first time flashing an android device I have a couple of questions.

Firstly, is there a reason why I shouldnt install miui on my phone aside from the void warrancy?

#do I get the warrancy back if I unroot and unflash before I take my device to the service?

Next, i have read that i need to root the device first, before i can install miui. Is that true?

#which kernel should I use for that?

I have heard that siyahkernel Is the best. But on the xda thread it says it isnt compatible with any ICS roms. Will it work with miui 4? Is this thread a root at all? I can only assume it is because it has cpu/gpu oc/uc and ov options...

Also, cfroot Has a big and detailed thread. But this one does not support rom manager. I'd need to use cwm for flashing. Is this a problem?

So with which kernel do I go?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] okmijnlp:
No, use a jig too.

Use Cfroot.

What? You don't need rom manager, not sure what you're getting at here.

I'd recommend using a gingerbread version of miui as it's your first time. Gb is stable, ics isn't 100% there yet.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Atomix86:
Good choice going with miui, however I wouldn't use the ics versions at the moment as they are buggy. I would personally recommend wiui latest gingerbread version as it is stable as hell and works with siyah.

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iZver:
Thanks for the reply. But:

Whats a jih?

MIUI install guide (miuiandroid(dot)com/community/threads/how-to-update-upgrade-miui.15424/) says to use ROM manager. But I suppose cwm does the same thing.

I've read somewhere that the last sgs2 miui version is based on official 4.0.3 samsung files. Shouldn't that mean that there are no bugs aside from the ones which are also found on samsung update channels?

I really mainly want miui because of ics, and chrome browser. I have no interest in voiding my warrancy so I can stay on gingerbread. The better UI simply isn't worth it. So you suggest I wait for official samsung updates? (I do want the better UI...)

Thanks for the reply!

Cheers
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Atomix86:
No, miui ics introduces several bugs of its own despite being based on samsung rom.

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] okmijnlp:
A jig resets your "Custom binary counter", the thing that counts how many times you've flashed a rom/kernel/whatever. Samsung will see its above 0 and may, or may not, said that your warranty is still void.

If you're really that desperate for ics, go for it. Just make a Nandroid backup with CWM incase you don't like it.

No, it's still buggy, but it is still really good & can be used as a daily rom, I would think.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iZver:
I wouldn't say that I am desperate for ics, but I am pretty sure I will install miui at one time anway. I don't like the cartoonish icons of touchwiz. The question I think right now is, whether I install ICS right now, or should I wait for ICS to become availabe on KIES and install miui later. (I suppose they'll fix the remaining bugs than)

Also, does anyone suggest a different rom than miui, which is better for some reason? I like eyecandy, but I do want performace as well.

Thanks for your answers.

Cheers

Edit:

If I do upgrade to ics and miui. All I have to do is root it with cfroot and use cwm to do a nandroid backup, and than use cwm to install miui 2.3.16?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] okmijnlp:
If you're not desperate then flash miui 2.3.9. Best rom I've ever used.

MIUI is already rooted. Just root whatever you're on now, make a Nandroid backup of that, and then flash miui. Btw, once you're on miui you'll never turn back :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B3311:
Was back on the ROM in my sig within 36 hours;) Tried 4 different GB MIUIs, not one gave me anything my current setup couldn't do better. Each to their own though.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iZver:
Fair enough.

The thread title does however confuse me:

MIUI ROM 2.3.9 Releases [GB] & [ICS ENGLISH FULL]

miuiandroid(dot)com/community/threads/miui-rom-2-3-9-releases-gb-ics-english-full.15662/

So miui 2.3.9 for sgs2 is gb based. If i understand correctly than I have to download from this thread. But isn't installing old versions dumb? Or is 2.3.16 a major jump which introduces new bugs?

Edit:

Okay as far as I understand 2.3.9 is GB and 2.3.16 is ICS. 2.3.9 works very good while 2.3.16 is laggy.

So to get this straight:

I want to install miui 2.3.9-- The steps are:

update to latest version. (i have dukg2 i'll go to kj3)

root with cfroot

backup with nandroid

system wipe, galvik wipe, cache wipe

install miui rom with cwm

???

This is it?

Edit2:

Is there a way to store my defender savegame? :D

Edit3:

I have read that siyah kernel is very fast. How do i install that kernel?

Do I do all the steps liste above, and than when I am done installing miui install siyah kernel?

Turns out siyah has NTFS usb OTG feature. I now really want siyah. :D

Before i got samsung galaxy s2 I had a nokia 5800 for 3 years. It was like switching from a sedan to formula 1. I am still so impressed by the power of SGS2 that some minor performance improovements aren't important. Not yet at least... :D

Thus I am looking for eyecandy (since i can't get ICS and chrome just yet). Which as I've hear MIUI is best at.

Besides, there's no link in your sig. Otherwise i'd love to take a look at that rom. What does miui lack at btw?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr.Greg:
Don`t use miui, is ugly:mad:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iZver:
What do you suggest than?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr.Greg:
Look in xda sgs2 forum is 20 normals rom and 2 miui, you can change what kernel you want, what theme you want, coz almost all is compatible each others. For miui you need special kernel, special theme, etc. Don`t wasting you time using miui
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
Rubbish. Opinion is one thing, misinformation is another :-|
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] okmijnlp:
Right. Because touchwiz is a lot sexier? Please. The miui themes are beautiful. Even stock looks stunning. But hey, I heard kids love the cartoonish look if touchwiz.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B3311:
Big banner that says "SlimROM by krinyo75"... not visible on xda's app. Skinny, fast, monochrome - the way I like it (yes, I tried BAT)

What does miui lack:

- installed adfree, still got many ads.

- sammy's stock browser is so much better than MIUI's

- camera is nowhere near good enough

- flaky GPS

- laggy music player (tried it first on my SGS waybackwhen, still no better)

- limited kernel choice

- all phone numbers hyphenated after 3 digits

- don't want workarounds for an app drawer - I want an app drawer, period

Sure some of these sound petty, but horses for courses... since MIUI v4 will be based on Samsung's framework and kernel sources are now released, I'll try it again when it's done.

One thing I love about MIUI - only non-3rd party contacts app I've seen with a list view - no photos, no stupid icon next to contact name.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] okmijnlp:
I don't have any of these problems. But regarding AdFree, it really is quite bad, use adaway, it's a lot better.
[Acer Iconia A500] I7210I:
hi

is there any ics rom for iconia a500 with root something like the orginal ics rom from acer with root?

thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] drkalo:
There are 4 of them, based on a leaked ROMs from Acer.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1517181

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1138051

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1522310

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1520299
[Acer Iconia A500] phillymatt:
[YOUTUBE]JmvCpR45LKA[/YOUTUBE]
[Acer Iconia A500] I7210I:
phillymatt - iknow how to do search...but i saw that there is some good rom's some with lag's some with problems...just want to ask if there is something frome acer!

drkalo -

thank you first!

second all the rom's are based on leaked so that means that acer doesn't finish to work on tham..?
[Acer Iconia A500] erica_renee:
The roms in the dev forum are FROM ACER.. That is what you asked..

THE ANSWER TO the above is NO.. THERE IS NO Released update from acer for the a500 tablet.There is no full Officially released ICS Rom of any kind from Acer for out tablet. the leak is as close as you will get right now.. acer says mid April is when they push to ics will start. If you want your tablet stock WAIT..
[Acer Iconia A500] I7210I:
ok ... i want the close rom that there is to the stock

so i think i need to wait for these four rom's
[Acer Iconia A500] FloatingFatMan:
WAIT for them? They're already there... :p Choose one, read the thread, download, install.
[Acer Iconia A500] sanaell:
People does not simply give answer without making some kind of "where is waldo game"

here your answer dude

Have the driver ADB ready for your tablet

FIRMWARE LEAK STOCK

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1524736

I updated it with the stock recovery (dunno if you can do it with the custom one... have to check for this to be sure)

ROOT WITH

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1546593

DO NOT INSTALL FACELOCK , it's not yet working totally

DO NOT INSTALL ACER RING (up to you but it's really useless...)

IF YOU WANT change to RW the /system (for modify some stuff)

an application will be installed with the rooting one,

normally it's will be the first app on your tablet,

1 - click on it,

2 - then press first option and second

reboot your tablet

redo exactly the step 1 and 2

then open root explorer and you normally are able to change /system to RW

end of story. have a nice day

PS:

Why the leak one and not custom rom

well I never got any SOD problem, or anything else than CUSTOM got...

CUSTOM are good it's a fact, but for sure the "Official" rom will probably got less bug, I use to have taboonay before, I didn't go back to stock because not satified, just because I wanted to... that's it.

DEV are doing a great job and that have to be said
[Acer Iconia A500] F2504x4:
Acer Iconia A500 ICS Update Confirmed by Acer

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1519558

and directly from Acer

http://acer.custhelp.com/app/answer...sion/L3RpbWUvMTMzMjI2MDMzMC9zaWQvOXZDWEt6VGs=
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Epic.... :D:D:D:D