yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HD2 General] dazza9075:
wifi is a two way system, you need both the router and the device to have higher power. If one is lower than the other it can only go at the speed of the slower device interfearence will also have an effect, Bluetooth devices, microwaves, power lines, wireless video cameras, hell, most of the wireless gear you can buy uses similar frequencies sooo. However, the big question is why you dont get a reasonable signal 14 meters away, soo, whats between you an the router?

in answer to your question, no, however the HD2 does support 802.11N which on paper should have a stronger signal, if your router supports N then enable it on your device and router and see if thats better, but my money is still on something stuck in the middle thats screwing with the signal

edit, uping the wattage is unlikey to be possible, and would generate significant heat and draw more power,as well as poentially being illegal, hardware mods may be possible but unless you can check out the radio ROM i doubt you'll be able to see whats possible, if anything, in a software sense.
[HD2 General] hengsheng120:
Some hd2s have a hardware defect where all the wifi signals are lower than normal
[HD2 General] SheenaIsAPunkRocker:
Really depends what's in those 12 to 15 metres! At home, I struggle being ~2 metres away from my router, but there are 2 walls and the stairs in between. You could try moving your router or setting up another access point.
[HD2 General] Hayzsky:
my wifi worked perfect for two weeks, then the signal got weak, stumped.
[HD2 General] mengfei:
thanks for your inputs guys, yes there are walls in our office & i guess our MIS has really limited the transmitting power just in the display room coz even when i'm at the door of that room I only get two bar.
[HTC One S] Razpr:
Since i dont see a Q & A board i suppose it wouldnt hurt to ask here:

Does this phone for TMOUS come with Wi-Fi calling? would it work if i installed it on HTC sensation with ICS roms?

Wi-fi calling seems to work on Gingerbread Sensation roms, but since TMO hasnt officially released Wifi calling for the HTC sensation, would it work if you used this ROM's wifi calling app, say some developer uses this phone's RUU to copy over sense 4 and make a rom for the sensation?
[HTC One S] jriv:
Yes it comes built into the framework it works much better than the old WiFi calling app
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] yonka180:
Hello everyone!

My dad just got a Samsung Galaxy s2 LTE from Rogers and we're trying to get it to work with a different carrier. With that carrier we will be paying 40$ instead of the Rogers 80$ and he needs a phone (apperantly the radio/modem has to be reprogrammed for 1700). Can someone on here that has done this before with a Rogers phone help?

Can anyone help us with a step by step tutorial on how to install Android 4.0? I've read what I could, but the language is a little too technical for me and I don't understand everything. I don't want to accidentally break it.

My dad doesn't understand anything in electronics, but I think I with proper instruction I can do this (I'm 16).

Thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Petropavlovsk:
Start here...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1427268
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] yonka180:
I have read that thanks! But according to people in this forum its a bit of a more difficult process with Rogers phones, you have to do something with the antenna/modem and stuff...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Steve.99:
Its the same on rogers phone. Just read and follow instructions.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] funziebear:
After trying out the note i must say i missed the speeds on 4g the note is fun and all but pretty useless on data for some of us tmobile users , saving for sg3 or tmobile "note"
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] iLeopard:
Yeah, rumors are the T-Mo Note is around the corner however I'll just hold on to my SII for a while. Since I've got an iPad and the SII I really have no desire for the Note.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] funziebear:
Yeah its a cool little device but its not worth giving up the awesome speeds we get on this , ill miss the note so i know i will for sure get any pjone with a plus 5inch screen that runs on tmobile 4g
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] peppersu812:
Well they're is a way you can run 4g on the note
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] xsteven77x:
You want to enlighten everyone?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] funziebear:
So far the only true solution has been found by one xda member the other tmobile radio mods arent that great 4g is choppy and not reliable , rotohammer has modified his antena and it looks promissing ,
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] funziebear:
This is from the note forums under the new screen shots of tmobile note

Sent from my SGH-T989
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Android_Monsters:
Glad to have you back
[LG Optimus 2x] waiholee:
I discovered that there are 2 problems in Nova HD plus rom.

Fisrt, when i turn my phone to landscape when i'm using the browser it close by itself!

Then, when i switch off the wifi, i can't connct to the 3G network! I must reboot my phone to connect the 3G network..

Are there any solutions for these two problem?

Or am i set something wrong?

Please help me:)

Apologize for my bad English.
[LG Optimus 2x] LOSTLOGIC89:
I am not having that issue. Try wiping data and reinstall it.
[LG Optimus 2x] waiholee:
I had reinstall the rom for many time. However, the same issues are still exist. ..:(
[LG Optimus 2x] LilProphet:
Which version of Nova?
[LG Optimus 2x] waiholee:
RC23-48
[LG Optimus 2x] LilProphet:
I don't know I've also had some strange problems with it, only wiping+reinstalling could help. Try not to backup everything, only the most important apps and data, that can also harm the rom.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] vioalas:
http://phandroid.com/2012/04/25/sam...ynos-4-quad-for-their-next-generation-galaxy/

So it's a quad core based of A9 architecture, not the dual core A15 monster it could've been.

I wasn't going to wait for the GSIII but now I feel even more at peace.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] expertzero1:
Bleh, too much hype
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] vioalas:
Yep, people expected too much and now they're going to get disappointed. Even though I think the biggest disappointment I've seen was the 4s after all the iPhone 5 hype. Steve Jobs was so embarrassed you saw what happened the next day...(too soon?)
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] expertzero1:
lol, it was a upgraded quadcore a15 or something, then maybe the gs3 lol
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mrvirginia:
yep it's what i was expecting. so the S4 should still kick butt at least with power management with LTE. that's one of the main reasons i want the HOX, to try LTE. i'd like it to be a good experience and i've stayed away from it because i know how power hungry it can be.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] S8B:
They're saying the SG3 MIGHT get an A15 like the HTC One X did for LTE Compatibility. I guess we'll find out soon...
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] vioalas:
People are just in denial. They never said that the quad core didn't have LTE compatibility. A15 will take a while, even though it'll be available Q2.

EDIT: If it doesn't have LTE it will probably have S4 Krait, sound familiar?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] NextNexus:
Looks like the S3 w/ LTE, similar to the HOX w/ LTE, will have the dual core S4 chip instead of the quad core chip in the HSPA+ version.

http://www.androidcentral.com/dual-core-galaxy-s3-be-offered-some-territories-snapdragon-s4-and-lte
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] craig@xatik:
That's pretty disappointing. I'm tired of waiting for a new phone so I think I'll just pick up the HTC One X now.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] vioalas:
Geez, you sound so down about getting a One X :P
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] jpinks:
Yeah but I dont want to wait til August when it arrives in the US.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] S8B:
Isn't the Snapdragon S4 Krait an A15 based chip? :confused:
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] slegrand:
This was posted earlier to a Canadian news site and it could be possible as it did happen to us One X owners. Essentially much like the Tegra 3 they are saying that the new Quad Core Exynos may not support LTE and could possibly ship with the Snapdragon S4 Krait that the HTC One X from AT&T and Rogers is using. I am not saying this is concrete but I wouldn't be surprised. I am curious to see what the end result is going to be.

http://mobilesyrup.com/2012/04/26/n...-with-qualcomm-s4-chip-to-ensure-lte-support/
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] vioalas:
Not really based, they can be compared to each other. The S4 Krait is actually a bit lower than a true A15 in regards to performance. The chip people were wanting was the exynos 5250 (or 5450? ugh too many numbers) a dual core chipset, but samsung wanted the marketing "quad core" brings.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] blairh:
The One X has a much nicer build quality than anything I've handled by Samsung in the past 12 months.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Hunt3r.j2:
Almost. Qualcomm made the decision to go with lower power consumption over higher performance, so it is slightly slower than A15.

This means that companion cores aren't needed, and in theory it might be able to clock higher to overcome the performance deficit when needed.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] vioalas:
http://www.androidcentral.com/dual-core-galaxy-s3-be-offered-some-territories-snapdragon-s4-and-lte

Knew it, haha.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Crizthakidd:
it goes by tiers guys. americans will have lte high end dual core this year while europe has new low end quad core. then we will have mid quadcore next year while europe+asia have the high end quad cores lol i remmeber iphone having a front facing camera for the first time and everyone here is flipping out while japanese had those since like 2009. its a shame here in america really but oh well we take what we get
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] chaosjh:
This actually makes me really happy. If most of the new high end and mid range phones come with the s4, then we will see less splintering of apps and games.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mrvirginia:
so in the US we're only gonna have 3 chipsets? that's kinda fail. Samsung, what is going on guys?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] expertzero1:
guessing US is a small market compared to the global market...
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] slegrand:
When I first started researching the new chipsets I might have been a bit hesitant to agree but now actually seeing the Snapdragon S4 in action for my needs it is perfectly fine. I do not game on my phone at all. I watch only the occasional youtube video so ultimately after seeing first hand the benchmarks and overall snappiness of the S4 I am actually content with my One X and the Snapdragon S4
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] UMGixxer:
Same goes for me
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] vitaminxero:
We're going to upgrade our phones in around 18 months anyway. The S4 is probably what will be best for Android NOW/the near future and that's what matters. Most applications are not heavily threaded and would benefit having fewer faster cores on newer architecture. The Tegra 3 and the Exynos 4212 packs a lot of raw power that will be hard to utilize most of the time. I'll re-evaluate quad core mobile chips the next time I upgrade.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] david_ag:
Same here, but instead of last 12 months, for me its actually ever.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] nativestranger:
While Qualcomm S4 Krait is a good upgrade from their Scorpion core, its actually much slower than A15 at the same clock. About the same as A9 but a little more efficient. Its good at vellamo and linpack but neither are any indication of a phone's actual performance in use. Antutu is the best benchmark for android and S4 scores about half of what Tegra 3 does. So saying S4 is comparable to Tegra3 in performance is far from the truth.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mrvirginia:
they went with a chip based on the A15 instead of the A15 because they thought that consumers would want power over performance. i have to agree with this decision. until someone comes out with a new type of battery, i'll always prefer this.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] vioalas:
Based on A15 instead of the A15? Did you miss something there? Lol.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] joshnichols189:
No, the S4 is NOT A15 it is in-house Qualcomm and is based on the A15.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] vioalas:
That's what I was pointing out...
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] iamthedudeman:
,

Same as A9, slower than A15? What are you smoking?

Antutu is the worst bench mark there is because it is not based on real world applications. The Snapdragon S4 is a more complex design than a Cortex A15.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4940/qualcomm-new-snapdragon-s4-msm8960-krait-architecture

ARM's Cortex A15 design by comparison features a 15-stage integer pipeline. Qualcomm's design does contain more custom logic than ARM's stock A15, which has typically given it a clock speed advantage. The A15's deeper pipeline should give it a clock speed advantage as well. Whether the two effectively cancel each other out remains to be seen.

and:

At 3.3, Krait should be around 30% faster than a Cortex A9 running at the same frequency. At launch Krait will run 25% faster than most A9s on the market today, a gap that will only grow as Qualcomm introduces subsequent versions of the core. It's not unreasonable to expect a 30 - 50% gain in performance over existing smartphone designs. ARM hasn't published DMIPS/MHz numbers for the Cortex A15, although rumors place its performance around 3.5 DMIPS/MHz.

A 3.3 rating vs a rumored 3.5 for Cortex A15. They are on par with each other. A9 is old in comparison. No comparison to a Snapdragon S4 clock for clock.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5559/...mance-preview-msm8960-adreno-225-benchmarks/2

If you want to abstract by one more level: Krait will be faster regardless of application, regardless of usage model. You're looking at a generational gap in architecture here, not simply a clock bump.

Occasionally we'll see performance numbers that just make us laugh at their absurdity. Krait's Linpack performance is no exception. The performance advantage here is insane. The MSM8960 is able to deliver more than twice the performance of any currently shipping SoC

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5563/qualcomms-snapdragon-s4-krait-vs-nvidias-tegra-3

AnTuTu looks at CPU, memory, SD card reading, 2D graphics and 3D graphics, amongst other things. In what scenerio do you use all of that at the same time? Is that really a real world benchmark?

for pure CPU performance, Linpack is the best.

A higher score is better. Tegra 3 has the advantage because it has four cores. The bad thing about that is that there isn't much a smartphone does that stresses all four cores. Most are single or dual core.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2400409,00.asp

The Snapdragon S4 beats it out in just about any other test with only two cores. There wouldn't be a comparison if the Snapdragon S4 had four cores.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Reckless187:
I was going to wait for the SIII but as soon as I saw the One X, my mind was changed. I'll be bloody shocked if the SIII doesn't turn out to be a better spec'd phone than the One X. And I'll be doubly shocked if they haven't used a Super Amoled+ screen
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] joshnichols189:
Sorry it sounded like you thought he was confused haha my bad sir
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] nativestranger:
Krait may be rated at 3.3DMIPS compared to A9 at 2.5DMIPS but that does not mean real world performance is 30% faster per clock because Dhrystone MIPS is a horribly outdated benchmark for performance. Linpack is another pretty worthless benchmark because it simple does not reflect real world performance at all. Even if we ignore Antutu and compare single threaded performance in modern benchmarks, Krait is pretty disappointing in the the sense that the A9 cores in the Tegra and Exynos can keep up with it easily clock for clock.

Sunspider javascript is a purely single threaded test and the S4 snapdragon in the One S score almost exactly as the Tegra 3 in the one X

htc one S: 1742ms

htc one X: 1772ms

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/02/htc-one-s-review/

Anandtech's results even shows the ONe X beating the One S:

My galaxy note on stock 2.3.6 score also thrashes the One S scoring below 1600ms every time. That is even though its running a lower clocked dual A9 chip.

Benchmark Pi is another single threaded cpu benchmark and unlike Linpack it is an excellent indication of real world performance. The One S barely manage to win by a hair:

htc One S: 308

htc One X: 336

http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_one_s-review-746p3.php

I know for a fact that my friend's SGS2 also scored around 300ms on stock ICS Rom.

If we discard linpack and the (horribly qualcomm biased) vellamo benchmark, the snapdragon S4 chip is merely competitive with current dual core A9 offerings. It is still a good chip in terms of power efficiency but Tegra 3 and the upcoming Exynos 4412 quadcore beats it hands down in performance. The gap will grow even bigger when most applications take advantage of multi threading on their next update.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mesasone:
What apps are going to become multithreaded? Even on the desktop, which has had multi-core processors for a decade now, still very few applications are multithreaded because there simply is no advantage to write them in that fashion. Games have moved to multithreaded designs, and the each tab in Chrome is instanced. Beyond that, I can think of very few pieces of software that can actually take advantage of multiple cores that are on the typical users computer, and even fewer that would end up on a phone. Unless you plan on folding on your phone, in which case lol battery life.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Mcoupe:
Maybe I can help......

I am typing this on an Asus Transformer Prime, the first quad core Tegra 3 tablet. We can talk numbers all day long and I have read many threads comparing benchmark numbers between what Sammy, Qual, Nvidia etc. And they are just numbers....like us grease monkeys comparing dyno numbers for our cars, they dont tell what the real world applications are.

While I love my Prime, it can be extremely frustrating at times. I was hoping with the power of the tegra 3 that this thing would be lightning fast.

Tegra 3 with its 5 cores maybe fast in benchmark tests, but when you throw in ICS and real world applications it can stumble. Heavy web pages tell me the stock browser wont respond, scrolling will lag and be choppy, and will force close....often.

I am no where near as smart as 99% of you guys, so I am giving a basic user experience. Kinda just a real world deal. I freaking love my Prime, and would ABSOLUTELY LOVE to show off my Prime to friends, but doing so would make me nervous.

A lot of Prime users have found ways around these problems ie. changing settings, change how it renders, flash to "on demand", change the browser, etc, etc....BUT why, WHY would I have to do this in a $700 (I have the keyboard dock also) Tegra 3 quad core device that should be able to crush such basic functions.

Not sure if I helped any of you guys. Since I cant help any of you all with anything technical I thought maybe I could give some of ya a real world experience of what a Tegra 3 is like.

Personally I am in the same boat as you guys.....I am reading every rumor about the gs3 and the one x. My 2 year old beloved htc evo is ready for an upgrade....
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] vioalas:
Exactly, benchmarks only say so much. There are other factors that affect performance.

And the aesthetics of the phone are just as important to some too. That is also another factor in choosing a phone.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] manlisten:
Both phones are going to be extremely fast for a very long time so the processor is less important to me. The deciding factors for me lie in other variables. Design/build quality, battery, screen quality, expandability, miscellaneous features (e.g. inductive charging), etc. That's pretty much what I'm waiting to see from the S3 before making any decisions.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] nativestranger:
As i said before while the tegra3 chip is lightning fast, its still relatively new. There are a few apps that are still not updated to support a quadcore processor so you wont see that much of a gain over existing dual core chipsets. Its still not perfect at the moment but its by far the best experience you can get out of an android device.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mesasone:
Which apps do you think are going to updated to be multithreaded and why? You keep making this assertion, but fail to disclose which apps are going to be updated and magically make the Tegra 3 perfect. We'd had dual core processors in our phones for what, 18 months now? An eternity in the mobile space. Most apps that would going to updated to be multithreaded, they would be now.

The thing is, few apps have the ability to take advantage of multiple cores. It isn't a matter of updating the app to support multiple apps, it's a matter of having something for additional cores TO DO. If you do not have a work load that can be offloaded to another core, then you can not take advantage of multiple cores. The vast majority of apps perform a series of simple tasks, based on the information they receive from the previous task. The next step can not run until the previous step is completed, thus there is not advantage to running them in parallel. Additionally, there is an overhead cost to making an application multithreaded, so it's not just a matter of being able to use multiple threads, but also being able to gain enough benefit in doing so to offset the overhead cost. The consumer PC space went through this same transition nearly a decade ago, and the vast majority of applications run an a PC are still single threaded for a reason.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] jtwlbz:
I respect Samsung's technology and quality on electronics but i am not very impressed on their super amoled technology comparing to LG's IPS technology. I have an iphone4 for 2 years and i am still very impressed on IPS display everytime i look at it. so i am more leaning toward to one x this time
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] shahkam:
I wanna know which of the both will have the best battery life ;D

Sent From My Sexy Sensation.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] nativestranger:
If you do read desktop processor reviews many apps do have the ability to use multiple threads. Good example are video encoding, photo editing, rendering softwares as well as games. The reason why some desktop apps are still single threaded is they run well enough on a single core. But each core on a mobile processor is still much weaker than a desktop one. Developers will start to take advantage of multithreading to maximize performance. With samsung, lg, htc all introducing their quadcore phones, its a matter of time before major developers support quadcore in their apps. Dual core chipsets are already on their way out if not for lte support at the moment. I personally will be looking forward to future tegras with 6 or 8 cores. Just feels good to have so much processing power in your pocket.