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[HTC Desire S] dan-fish:
Oh that's alright. I only take exams seriously about 2 weeks before. :p

And trust me you're clever. Many people find it hard to admit.

@Enigmaamit Everyone needs a break from revision!

The update says the Incredible S receives the update before us. That doesn't sound right...?

Also some devices like DHD seem to be missing.
[HTC Desire S] olyloh6696:
Lol haha :p

Best of luck with B2 and B3 tomorrow mate!

I'll come on tomorrow to discuss how the paper went!

Good luck!
[HTC Desire S] SimonTS:
Good luck both of you. English was always one of my most hated subjects - the sciences and maths were 'simples' and I enjoyed the languages, but I hated English and History.
[HTC Desire S] dan-fish:
You too. I'm expecting you to prove me wrong a few times :p

Thanks simon. I'm dreading the history paper!
[HTC Desire S] dan-fish:
How'd you find the paper Oly? I thought it was relatively easy. In fact, I found B2 harder (mainly because I didn't study for it :p)
[HTC Desire S] olyloh6696:
Yeah! I was pleasantly surprised! I thought it was more straight forward compared to the other mocks! Some of my friends resat B2 and they found it harder than B3, so don't worry, the grade boundaries will be lower!

What I realised was that in January, B2 was so hard, so they compensated by making B3 easier. But in January, C2 was relatively easy, so my fears are that C3 on Thursday will be hard!

I've got my literature tomorrow aha, so not looking forward to it! :p

Cheers!
[HTC Desire S] dan-fish:
You make a good point there. Good luck with literature!
[HTC Desire S] Duke_Nuke:
Heh, did the exact same exams :P I found B2 hard but B3 was pretty simple. For the English lit today I did Lord of the Flies and Of Mice and Men and it wasn't too hard
[HTC Desire S] olyloh6696:
Yeah, I did Lord Of the flies and To kill a Mockingbird. I found the LOTF question pretty straight forward, but then the TKAM ridiculous ... they asked such a tedious question on such a small topic, IMO.

How much did you write? I wrote 6 pages for LOTF, but only 4 for TKAM, so its pretty uneven :(

You?
[HTC Desire S] Duke_Nuke:
I really cannot remember how much I wrote :p I'm pretty good at English and I get good grades but I never seem to write as much as anyone else... I'm pretty sure you wrote more than me :p
[HTC Desire S] olyloh6696:
Lol haha, I think I waffled too much in my essays, and wasn't straight enough to the point. And I certainly could have done with more time :p

Have you got the Poems paper on Thursday? Which set of poems are you studying?
[HTC Desire S] djsubtronic:
I got a One S guys. So it looks like I shall be parting ways.
[HTC Desire S] enigmaamit:
Review! Review!:D:D:D
[HTC Desire S] shrome99:
I have sooooo many questions :p Black or Grey? Chipping MAO?? Fuzzy screen, especially compared to the Desire S?

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[HTC Desire S] Duke_Nuke:
Yeah got the poems on Thursday, doing the conflict set from the moon on the tides anthology
[HTC Desire S] bronx:
+1
[HTC Desire S] djsubtronic:
I got the black one, unlocked via HTC and flashed a nearly fully working CM9 ROM the moment I got home :)

Only two days yet and my first impressions:

- No chipping yet (yay) but I have 28 days return policy from the shop I got it if there's any manufacturing faults. If chips do develop, hopefully by 28 days there will be a new batch but let's see how it goes.

- The pentile is definitely noticeable but you get used to it quickly. Picture quality is amazing, the blacks are of course as deep as they can be, and it's a huge change from the LCD. But as expected, text does have that little bit of a jaggedness but it's not a dealbreaker.

- The phone feels nice to hold, good texture, took me a little while to get used to how thin it is, and still somewhat adjusting to the slightly bigger screen when it comes to typing.

- The storage space is my biggest issue since I had a 32 GB card on my Desire S, with about 6000 songs encoded at 64k ogg format, about 10 GB. Given that HTC has partitioned the 16 GB in such a way that 2 GB for /data and 4 GB is /system, that leaves only 10 GB for /sdcard, so after going through my entire music library, deleting about 600 songs, recompressing to ~40k M4A format, I retain the same quality and reduced the 10 GB to about 7 GB. So now I have about 1 GB free instead of the 10 GB free I had on my SD card. However hopefully soon there will be a way to repartition, so while 16 GB is still the max, at least there should be a way to maybe borrow a couple of gigs from the /data and /system partitions since they are pretty much empty after installing CM9 and all my apps. I've said it before and I'll say it again: f**k cloud storage.

- Now for the good stuff. The performance is absolutely blistering. What I thought was pretty damn smooth on the DS, now looks awful and choppy. It literally flies through anything you can throw at it. I loaded up a web page with 20 embedded youtube videos, played about 5 of them simultaneously, then scrolled around and zoomed in and out around the page, not even a single hitch or lag. Tried a few games too with not a single issue. The performance is where this phone really shines.

- Sound quality is decent, have no issues with it so far. Call quality is decent enough, speaker and headphone output is similar to DS.

- The camera on this phone is amazing. The colours and detail is amazing and for those who like the shallow depth of field effect of a DSLR camera will welcome the wide angle wide aperture lens of the One S. You can take some pretty nice looking pictures. I didn't really use the default Sense camera though, just the CM9 one. As for video, I can't say as video recording is not working in CM9 yet.

I think that's about all for now. After managing to get most of my music across, getting over the slight jaggedness of the on screen text, and no chipping in 2 days, and the blazing performance, I'm happy so far. :)
[HTC Desire S] Duke_Nuke:
Well I'm due to have my DS for another year so I'll be sticking around for a while yet :D
[HTC Desire S] 42R1:
how about u guys? when it's time for your beloved ds to retire, what will be your next smartphone? For me I guess One S also..
[HTC Desire S] zeus.lny:
Hello guys, guess i m very late in here to post... for me...i am going to hold on my DS for a long time.... its just 4 mnths for me with DS and i really liked it, perfect phone for me who spends 10-12 hrs daily in office... a litte surfing and listening music when i travel(Mumbai Locals).. I work for JP Morgan btw as a Portfolio Analyst... Its the best Phone i had so far..4th HTC for me...if i plan to retire it... next phone will be 1S
[HTC Desire S] shrome99:
Thanks man, keep these coming. The only issue is MAO chipping on the black One S. Best solution is to get a grey one, but it is very ugly.

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[HTC Desire S] zeus.lny:
Hello Guys.. not sure if u have seen this.... as per this htc page the ICS update for our beloved DS is June-July... heres the link - http://www.htc.com/www/help/android4faq/?cid=htcblog_is-it-always-1008-at-htc

hope htc keeps there word this time..... also a note added - "Please note these dates are targets and may shift due to testing and approvals".....

phew...
[HTC Desire S] suku_patel_22:
Yeah saw that,.just need a RUU leak and the kernel:)

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[HTC Desire S] olyloh6696:
Just used my friends One S... wowo.

The device is sexy as hell! Much thinner and lighter than the DS. The phone is so thin.

Screen is not grainy. But nit fantastic either. I'd say the sharpness is pretty much the same as our phone, but yhr colours look much more saturated and nicer.

The phones performance is incredible. Its so fast and smooth. Sense 4 really shines on it.

I'm so jealous of my friend now. Lol.

Still yet to see the One X in person though!
[HTC Desire S] djsubtronic:
For me I find the text quiet noticeably grainier than the DS.
[HTC Desire S] renobartolo:
True
[HTC Desire S] dan-fish:
Prepare for the floods people!
[HTC Desire S] shrome99:
It's heeeeeeeeere !!!!!!!!!!!!

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[HTC Desire S] bronx:
As a matter of fact, I lost my interest in it about 5 seconds after I've grabbed it in my hands at three store. That's really crazy that with higher res everything looks so bad. Maybe it's because of 4.3 screen, maybe it's just me... ;)
[HTC Desire S] shrome99:
No, it's because the Super Amoled is missing a Plus, and it's pentile. Google that and you'll get an explanation. I would explain if i understood myself :p

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[HTC Desire S] ben_pyett:
So many questions though...

Will old ROMS run on the new Firmware?

Will old ROMS run with the new RADIO?

Exactly what is in the new firmware? new partition structure?

Whose going to try it first?

Can we extract the kernel from this ROM?

so many questions....
[HTC Desire S] shrome99:
Go to the virtuous IRC channel on their site and ask away :D I would too, but it's late and i have a test tomorrow. Please report here after testing, that thread is flooding with replies ;)

PS - When i asked m-deejay on irc, he said it's tested.

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[HTC Desire S] ben_pyett:
in which open your books.....and ignore XDA tonight.....good luck....
[HTC Desire S] shrome99:
Done with the syllabus, time to sleep now :)

PS - At least we know why this took so long, it's the first HTC ROM with 4.0.4 :D Even the One seres has 4.0.3

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[HTC Desire S] olyloh6696:
God damn it :D I had a prediction that the update would come on the night before my exam. And it comes the night before I have 3 exams!

I will take your advice and leave xda tonight! I'll be back tomorrow eagerly hoping to flash.

Lol
[HTC Desire S] djsubtronic:
The first time I grabbed it in store a few weeks ago, I lost interest in about 5 seconds too. But then I decided to stop being so anal, and gave it another chance. Now I wouldn't look back :)
[HTC Desire S] 42R1:
kernel 3 gives me adrenaline rush. i feel like want to jump off a building, stop a moving train, and wrestle a grizzly bear...
[HTC Desire S] zeus.lny:
Played with one x yest at a store....really impressed with it..light weight....awesome screen...elegant body...nice to hold it..and wht a performance....was looking for 1s btw...alas it still not launched in India... One X shld have a tag line....designed for humans... Whts say..
[HTC Desire S] FrEaK_101:
Hello, Ben i can answer all of them. yes it has new partitions i dont know what ones. ill have to look 2morrow. old gb roms work with new radio and yes old roms work with new firmware. and as far as i can tell this roms VERY buddy. the only good thing to come out of this is that we now have kernel 3 to have our sense 4a ICS rom with out OWN kernel 3.
[HTC Desire S] suku_patel_22:
Did you flash the firmware as well?

I flashed it over old radio and it was laggy so back to AOKP.

Well we be able to use this with gingerbread and ICS AOSP ROM's?

Edit: just read last post,

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[HTC Desire S] suku_patel_22:
Sorry guys another question...

For all of you using gingerbread out AOSP ICS on the new firmware, how is the battery/signal quality/voice quality?

I have never done a radio upgrade, and I am contemplating to do one now, hence the skepticism....

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[HTC Desire S] ben_pyett:
they're should be no reason why you couldn't flash new radio and then down grade by flashing your old one, radios are not like ROM version you can go up and down, as long add you're soff

Although I'm staying on old radio for now

Swyped from my DesireS
[HTC Desire S] shrome99:
So, what's the final verdict? Flash Radio or not? Especially aimed at people who did flash the radio, @eyahl, notice any improvements??
[HTC Desire S] eyahl:
Way better battery life! Will proof with screenshot at the end of day.

No differences in calling/signal so far. Everything good (made few calls)

Btw this was my first radio update. I wonder if my old backups will still work?

Sent by my fingers to your head.
[HTC Desire S] shrome99:
Old backups should work fine. I think I'll flash the radio too. ROM is downloading now.

Now that we have kernel 3, we can hope for a full Sense 4 port too :D There is a small thing though - I don't see proxuser around anymore, he said he'll be busy after May. The others (lowveld, djpbx etc.) probably won't get their hands dirty with resized ROMs, although I really hope lowveld cooks something up and the Virtuous Team won't release a build till at least one other device gets updated (i think). I don't think the kernel will be of much help to AOSP ROMs. Even with the Kernel, we're still stuck :p

PS - The ROM has over 1167 downloads already. WOW.

Last thing -what procedure did you follow? Did you flash the ROM first or the Radio?? Also, how long did it take to boot after Radio flash?? Did you wait or just pull the battery and wipe cache?? Thanks for the help :)
[HTC Desire S] eyahl:
I was on latest ice cold ROM. Flashed radio from bootloader.

Rebooted. Took about 5 minutes. But it Booted completely.

Went to recovery.

Wiped all.

Flashed sense 3.6 ROM.

rebooted. Took even longer (10 minutes?)

Booted completely and still working :-)

No battery pulling, bootloop, freeze or anything

Sent by my fingers to your head.
[HTC Desire S] shrome99:
Thanks again, I'll flash in an hour. Phone is charging now, don't won't it to run out of battery while flashing Radio ;)
[HTC Desire S] suku_patel_22:
Shrome, how did the flash go...?

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[HTC Desire S] shrome99:
I was busy F5'ing the CBSE site for my class 10 board results, just got a 10 CGPA !!!!!!!

Flashing now, will report in a little while
[HTC Desire S] suku_patel_22:
Congrats!!!!

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[HTC Desire S] shrome99:
OK, just flashed the RADIO on AOKP B36, flash in bootloader took 30 seconds, strangely enough, my phone skipped the HTC screen in less than a minute and booted in 2 minutes. The data is wiped, but that's no issue, i'll flash the ROM now too. eyahl says his battery life is excellent after the upgrade, and since i didn't have issues, i recommend the flash too :)

PS - Best day ever !!! First an RUU leaks, and now an excellent class 10 result :D:D:D What more could i possibly want??

EDIT: Confirmed, my baseband version is different now, i was worried it didn't flash at all :p

New version - 20.71.30.0833U_3831.17.00.16_M
[HTC Desire S] eyahl:
Sex?

Sent by my fingers to your head.
[HTC Desire S] shrome99:
Yeah, well, not really old enough for that yet xD
[HTC Desire S] djsubtronic:
How old are you?!
[HTC Desire S] shrome99:
Turned 16 in March.
[HTC Desire S] djsubtronic:
Oh that's plenty old enough lol
[HTC Desire S] olyloh6696:
Regarding the thing about the Paul.robo case, I agree with Dan, his writing style is very similar.... hmmm..

Also Dan how'd you find the chemistry today?
[HTC Desire S] shrome99:
Wow, i recognize every single person who posted here, but didn't really know anyone :p

PS - Barca just got screwed 2-1. La liga is definitely gone, hope they get something out of the champions league.....

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[HTC Desire S] suku_patel_22:
I am Sukumar, a 28 yr old Java software professional.

My first smartphone was back in the hay days of Nokia, the Nokia N72, E51, E66 (don't think we can call those smart now :D)

Desire S was my first android, got it as my last birthday gift from wifey. I have loved the phone ever since and my wife refers to it as the other woman in my life :D

I am very fickle minded and have had multiple interests, but never pursued them for a long time. be it photography, or guitaring or swimming.

Guess I am best suited to lazing around at XDA..
[HTC Desire S] olyloh6696:
Cheers Ben :D although I must give credit to Enigmaamit for coming up with the 'introducing yourself' thing - a good way to kick off the thread!

@Shrome I'm a little surprised at Barca's performance lately, I honestly thought it was going to be a draw yesterday.

@Ben ready for the united game? :p
[HTC Desire S] enigmaamit:
Okay, second idea : I see a lot of you have mentioned Games (as in virtual) as your hobbies. Care to detail your gaming rigs (PC config, XBox, PS3) and the favorite games you have ever played?

I'm a PC gamer here in Delhi, where I work. But back home I have access to both a PS3 and an XBox (non-kinect) I just finished Mass Effect 3 a couple of days ago on my PC, and Boy! was it a rush!!

My list of favorites includes the following franchises:

1. Call of Duty - The Modern Warfare Series only

2. Assassin's Creed - nothing like it!

3. Mass Effect trilogy.

4. Crysis (The original Crysis was waaay better than the sequels)

5. Far Cry 1 (FC@ was crap)

6. Devil May Cry 4

7. God of War (Of course!!)

8. Gears of War

9. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Series

10. Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.

11. Need for Speed Underground

12. Just Cause 2 : Timepass

What say you?
[HTC Desire S] olyloh6696:
I currently don't have a Xbox/ps3 yet! I'm looking to get one pretty soon though! Which do you recommend? :)

I do have a Wii though, but hardly ever go on it. I also have a PSP which I use when I'm out and about on holiday, I usually play GTA, FIFA, a couple of racing games etc.

I also use the Galaxy Tab to play a couple of games, I have completed GTA III (24% completed :D really longg game!), FIFA 12, 9MM HD, Modern Combat 3 (excellent game - especially the multiplayer online option) Shadow gun etc.

On the ipad, I'm looking to buy these games, (especially GTA - it would rock on the A5X chip & 9.7" retina display, rather than on the Galaxy, where it lags due to the single core chip, and tiny 7" screen)

But I can't justify paying for these apps, AGAIN from Apple, when I've already licensed them from Google...

Yep, so not much of a real console gamer, I usually play on tablets etc :)
[HTC Desire S] shrome99:
OK, here's my take on these -

1) CoD is awesome

2) Never really understood AC, since i started playing from Brotherhood, and now AC 1 seems to old to be played...

3) God of War is the best game i ever played. Only thing i miss on my Xbox 360 (coming from PS2)

4) NFS seems to have become crappy lately, Most Wanted and Carbon were great, after that they removed the stories, so i didn't play them. The Run was nice, but pretty short.

The others, i never tried....

@Oly - PS3, hands down. Free online gaming, and Sony's exclusive games are too good to forgo. My brother bought the Xbox despite my advise of getting a PS3, but it's pretty nice too.

Also, since David Villa's injury, Barca seems to be short of strikers, i just hope they win the champions league, or else the Madrid supporters at school will torture me all year :p
[HTC Desire S] enigmaamit:
Which console you buy is a very personal choice, oly.

It depends upon what kind of games you play and which franchises you consider indispensable.

If you're a Gears of War or Halo fan, you will take a plunge for the xbox, while if games like God of War (interesting, isn't it, the two top games from competing platform having almost identical names??) get your heart pumping, PS3 is your calling.

Secondly, I personally feel that the PS3 has better graphics, and an overall excellent BluRay DVD player thrown in for free!! I'd go for the PS3 (You HAVE to play God of War in HD to understand what I'm talking about), although I understand that there are more game titles available for the xbox currently.

Since we are off topic (is there a topic here?? Guess not :D), just saw some leaks of the new Samsung Galaxy SIII : looks like a Quad Core ARM7 processor - I don't know if this is an early prototype or the real thing, but for the first time, the Galaxy series seems to have done away with that iPhone clone central hard button. Time will tell.

Have a look :

Source : http://www.coolsmartphone.com/2012/04/20/is-this-the-galaxy-siii/

Video : [YOUTUBE]3Ei61wWOr4w#![/YOUTUBE]
[HTC Desire S] pughie:
Could never really get into PC gaming more of a console based gamer since the days of the Sega Genesis/megadrive...my age is showing here...

In no particular I enjoy :-

Call of duty games especially online multiplayer team games ie capture the flag

Gran Turismo 5 ( I work with cars so i guess that was a given ;) )

Assassins Creed

Portal 2

La noir

Wipeout (great with a 3d tv)

Little big planet

Street fighter series ( fan since coin op sf2)

Mario kart (my daughter can't get enough of it, therefore neither can I :) )

Metal gear solid series are probably my favorite all time games though
[HTC Desire S] enigmaamit:
Yup... don't know how i forgot to mention it...Portal 2 is A.W.E.S.O.M.E..!!
[HTC Desire S] shrome99:
One X > {Insert name of one of the million Galaxies}

If you look at Samsung's strategy, they are just spamming the market with tons of phones. Some of them are just pointless (Galaxy Ace Plus for example, considering the much better Ace 2). Also, i can bet that there will be many variants of the S3 like the S2. One of the S2 variants has an Exonys chip, the other one has a Snapdragon S3 (the one in Sensation) and there's a third one with a PowerVR. That's not it, all of them have the same name, Galaxy S2. The Note is even worse, one has a Dual core exonys (very nice) and the other one has a single core Snapdragon S2 (the one in Sensation XL), since they have the same name, the buyer mayget confused and buy the device he doesn't want.