yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC Desire S] GideonB234:
My HTC Desire S digitiser is really damaged which sucks because I like my Desire S a lot so I have to use a Galaxy S right now and I'm definitely planning to upgrade to an SIII

Despite the increased screen I still feel I can use it one-handed if I need to (for everything except typing) and the battery is a huge improvement over both the Desire S and Galaxy S

It comes down to personal preference though and the phone will last years because of dev communities like this one here at XDA
[HTC Desire S] remusator:
Just ordered Onyx Black SGS3 i9300 ;)) :victory::victory:

Yeah, ONYX ! Don't know why, everywhere on internet they call it sapphire black, but in slovakia, it's Onyx black :D
[HTC Desire S] suku_patel_22:
Good luck with your new toy :)

Tapatalked from Desire S running Andromadus
[HTC Desire S] theguitarman94:
One x+ if you want lots of storage and a device that can still be operated with one hand. Butterfly if you want a powerhouse. I would stick with HTC phones if I were you they have improved IMMENSELY since the days of the desire s. Build quality has improved and the display/designs of the phones are top notch! The One X had a slight problem with battery life but since then they've been on the ball. Samsung phones IMO are just crappy. They look cheap and the design/build quality is nothing compared to HTC's
[HTC Desire S] pughie:
Absolutely love my S3 its a massive improvement over the Ds but is itself approaching its first 'birthday' so if it were my money I would hold on until the first raft of 2013 phones get released to see what's on offer then decide ...good luck
[HTC Desire S] ben_pyett:
YES, you won't regret it, s3 is a stunning phone, although as said above, it is old now, new phones are due out soon, so hang on if you can bare as the price of s3 will drop or the s4 or the new M7 will be an option
[HTC Desire S] razi914:
devices like s3 , one x only gets old for the rich people ,who will throw away a S3 and say 'umm its OLD now ' ,, i still like my desire s , and my freinds still ask me" you got a new phone ??" when i flash a sense 4.1 or JElly bean rom ,,
[HTC Desire S] zeus.lny:
I woukd have not retired I tv yet...still love this phone...but a relative is coming back from to India...after a gap of 3 yrs..and he asked which phones I want..can't wait for ling as he's coming this mid march....

As of now have asked him..to bring butterfly, liked the 2 GB ram option......have heard of one x + WiFi issues a lot...so bit sceptical abt it...note 2 as currently top phone...and only for S pen...
[HTC Desire S] krazedout:
I think the desire S works fine but personally, the screen is too small. It's a good upgrade if you find that the screen is too small for you.
[HTC Desire S] remusator:
Cancelled my order for S3 today. Wait 2 weeks, they said :/

Also, droptests of S3 made change my mind..
[HTC Desire S] olyloh6696:
How often do you drop your pgone though? Its not like its part of your daily routine, dropping your phone is ot?
[HTC Desire S] remusator:
It definitely isn't.

I dropped my DS totally once in 1,5 years. That was failure of loose case anyway.

I just got scared from tests where they show that drop from shoulder height rips the phone.
[HTC Desire S] theguitarman94:
Have all of you guys gone off of HTC or something? I find it sad that samsung is getting all of the attention because of their marketing.
[HTC Desire S] remusator:
My personal reason, why to leave HTC is their customer care.

They promised ICS OTA. What we get ? ICS RUU for devs only.

Without root and editing build.prop, links were crashing. That's just one example. They threw something to us just to shut us up..
[HTC Desire S] olyloh6696:
Well it's mainly due to HTC policies compared to Samsung. HTC has bad support, they don't care for their customers at all. Whereas Samsung listens.

Probably most of the ordinary consumers moved to Samsung due to their marketing and advertising. But I'm sure most XDA members moved on to Samsung because of the excellent hardware/software and developer support.
[HTC Desire S] j_schipper:
You are right

You are right

But I love the fact that my DS has a nice format, it fits in all my trousers of shirts. When I see the S3 it is too big for my opinion.

After this I did root my DS and after some testing with several ROMS and I like the "AndromadusMod [CM10/CM10.1]" very much.

Only one thing would be nice, and that is the possibility to encrypt my phone.

After that I can receive my company mail on my DS. For now that is not possible and did not find a solution for it.

Cheers
[HTC Desire S] ramnex:
If you haven't made a decision yet I would recommend you wait for MWC, there are bound to be great offerings across the price spectrum

Sent from my GT-I9100

If I helped you, please hit the thanks button!
[HTC Desire S] olyloh6696:
True but when they are anniunced at MWC, it doesn't make them immediately available, you'd probably have to wait till March/April.
[HTC Desire S] remusator:
For now, DS stays with me.

Looking forward to new Galaxy S IV, Xperia Z or HTC m7..

However im affraid, that prices will be much higher in the beginning and that 5 inch will be way too much...
[HTC Desire S] psmok:
how about waiting for S4 to be released, and hope S3 prices drop?
[HTC Desire S] zeus.lny:
Will be getting in March Butterfly...but will keep an eye on HTC new offering..and if its available with in months will go for tht..or else butterfly is the way... Xoeria Z. Nor launched yet here..:cool:
[HTC Desire S] VnnAmed:
In this pricerange I would consider Nexus 4. At least u will get considerable software support :D About S3? Great phone but totally not worth that amount of money. It's to plasticky. Also for me 3,7 inch display is enough. I had S2 but it was too big and I couldn't manage it with one hand so I sold it. Consider that. Butterfly seems BIG with it's 5 inch display.
[HTC Desire S] torres76:
S3 is fine with one hand unless your a girl or child, believe me s3 is worth upgrading too I've got one.
[HTC Desire S] ramnex:
The plastic is on purpose according to me. It keeps cost down, but mainly doesn't interfere with phone antennas and is also MUCH more durable. See the new iPhone 5 after a few months of use, the aluminium chips and flakes and bends after it kisses the pavement a few times. Plastic builds allow the frame to absorb the impact, instead of transmitting it. That's my 2 cents

Sent from my GT-I9100

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I'd agree, the sgs3 isn't too big, it's comfortable to use one handedly. The note 2, however, stretches my hand's capacity to its limit

The nexus 4 isn't much wider than the s2, I've handled both. I'd say, anything under 5 inches of screen size can be used one handed with ease

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[HTC Desire S] zeus.lny:
The butterfly version which is launching in India doesn't have NFC and wireless charging...wireless charging can live with, but no NFC on an premium device is so 2011-2012

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also Checking my options with n4 and one x + if I get my hands on any one of them..

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Will finalize by march start...so need ur opinions...
[HTC Desire S] ramnex:
NFC isn't that big a deal in India, is still a gimmick really. As for wireless charging, same thing really, since the charging pad needs to be plugged in anyways in most cases

Sent from my GT-I9100

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Wait for MWC 2013 at the end of February, when quite a few new devices will be launched

Sent from my GT-I9100

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[HTC Desire S] jotha:
Closed

Has nothing to do with this phone, so off-topic. See Guide-Sticky.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] babyschmoof:
Since google is stopping support for the exchange option for gmail (unless you pay for hosted email / google premium services). what are other options to get email, contacts and calendar without using separate protocols like mail (imap, smtp, pop3), calendar (caldav), and contacts (cardav) ?

Of course if you use the gmail app, it's not an issue, but for users that like the separate email apps (like the htc email app) , this could be an inconvenience. I do not believe setting up a 3rd party email app using the Google protocol uses push email).

** http://www.coolsmartphone.com/2012/12/14/google-to-stop-exchange-support/

*** I've been testing a mixed sync of google for contacts and calendar and exchange for email (my email is being domain at gmail) and contacts and calendar work fine. No real solution for push mail as of yet, and imap is too slow
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JakePNEFC:
If I follow all instructions correctly will my phone not get bricked? Is it just luck to do with whether your phone gets bricked or is it because you download the wrong file? Is it worth rooting also? What are the advantages? I don't have an SD card so if I root would I lose all of my apps/pictures?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaldius:
It's very safe no you won't lose anything, just install a rooted kernel and your fine.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theunderling:
I think you need to edit your post.

Dont you mean "is it worth rooting etc".

You need to spend some time reading rules and guides as its all very lame questions your asking and that doesnt go down well here.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JakePNEFC:
Thanks. If i install a custom rom do i lose anything?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JakePNEFC:
Sorry, i just needed to know the basics. I probably shouldn't of rushed and should of searched instead.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theunderling:
No problem,Im just advising you.I spent a week reading stuff before flashing anything and I still ran into problems.

If you have the GT-I9100 model I just posted how to root the phone using the stock recovery which saves using Odin in the meantime.

You could try that now if your on ICS firmware.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JakePNEFC:
Yes I'm on 4.0.4. I'll have a look now thank you
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theunderling:
Be very careful since your on 4.0.4 stock.

Thats why you flash the siyah kernel straight after you flash the su/busybox file.

siyah-s2.v4.1.5.zip is the one for you.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JakePNEFC:
Would it be easier waiting for JB to come officialy? I only want to root to get a custom rom on jelly bean, well I haven't really looked at other things you can do
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theunderling:
You can install the leaked lsj one then root that.It could be a couple of months before official one comes out.

Or try custom ones like rootbox etc.

Theres also the option of trying one, then making a nand, and so on and so on.Then you can just restore the nand of whichever one you like.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheATHEiST:
:good:

As a new user that is the single best advice you can take. 99% of issues new users have are caused simply by them rushing into things, not searching, not reading, not learning and then doing something wrong.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dannyvld:
I can make a tutorial how to do it, its different then just install SuperSU and a kernel, but it works very good, rooted 4 S2s on this way.

If you read the instructions you will root it succesfully.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheATHEiST:
1. Install Kies (no need to run)

2. Reboot device into download mode and connect to USB.

3. Load up ODIN.

4. Load Siyah kernel into PDA.

5. Flash.

Its that simple.

Installing a custom kernel will root, install cwm, su etc. No need to mess about with any of the guides that have you installing separate things.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JakePNEFC:
So i can do this on 4.0.4? Heard it is different on that firmware
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bert.ba2:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1756242
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheATHEiST:
No its not different.

That is a bug in stock 4.0.4 kernel. When you flash a custom one like Siyah you're completely safe from the emmc bug so have no need to worry about it whatsoever unless you flash stock firmware in odin again.
[Nook Touch General] jago25_98:
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This is with a simple notepad app running and no other usage and rooted. Looks like it would last for at least a month. I'm going to stop measuring now as keeping the battery between 20-80% extends how long the battery can maintain a good charge.

edit: hmm... infernal google docs didn't graph it properly. last column should read "19/1/2013"
[Nook Touch General] dflt:
Re: NookTouch &gt;1month battery life (graph, rooted)

What rom version? What method of rooting? :)
[Nook Touch General] speedman2202:
my rooted NST , i used it daily and may be for a long time ... but Battery last for a 3 days for used it long time daily (5 Hours per day) ..... is that normal??

thx for share ur graph :)
[Nook Touch General] bornlivedie:
A perfectly good nook should last about 30 hours.

According to your calculations, yours lasts 15 hours, so I'd say it's not normal.

Mine lasts much much less, but I got it two days ago and haven't discharged yet (it's 65% now). So we will see after a couple of charges.
[Nook Touch General] lantrydon:
settings?

I assume that is 30 hours is with WiFi OFF? B&N Website says 3 weeks with WiFi ON, "over 2 months" with WiFi OFF, I think that is with 30 minutes daily use.

Wondered if adding the microSD memory card has much effect - the FLASH memory itself uses energy only when writes or reads, and probably not much, but any one know for sure?
[Nook Touch General] bornlivedie:
Yes, it's 30 minutes per day with Wi-Fi off.

I think an SD card consumes more battery, since I have swapped like 80 times mine (updating books and such) and the battery goes faster.
[HTC One X+] n_babyk:
Green tint on camera whenever i enable flash anyone can help with this? Im not rooted no custom roms.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superweird:
[edit] Please delete topic.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] hechoen:
Mod edit: This is considered as wares as such locked and removed posts.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mtdew:
This isn't technically allowed as its warez.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] crashpsycho:
He linked to another thread had he posted a link to the file then it would be warez
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] hechoen:
I did a search and didn't pull anything up on this forum. If there is a thread out there I'll happily have this one removed. We all know how great the search feature is on this site. lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mtdew:
Regardless he is enabling and condoning warez on this site.

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I reported it we will get a deliberation.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] hechoen:
Like I told you to do twice over in the off topic thread.

Let's let the MODS decide. If it needs to go so be it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msavi:
I am going through some troubleshooting steps and I need to know, how do android docks alert the phone that they are docked, not just charging? Does it send a signal through an extra pin? I can't find anything on the subject.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] netter123:
Do any of the recent custom roms (especially the ones that have multiwindow) have the option to zoom in the browser by sliding your finger up/down the right side of the screen? Or is there a way to add this?

I understand it was a feature or bug in some unofficial verizon rom releases, but I really like the functionality. But I'd also like to update to a rom with multiwindow support.
[General Topics] friend'scatdied:
My understanding of the big.LITTLE architecture is that it is a logical extension of the architecture implemented in Nvidia's Tegra 3 SoC. You have a lower-power architecture (in Tegra it was one core, in this case it's 4) that can handle operations in the background or "lite" activites, and a more robust quad-core A15 chipset to handle the heavy loads.

The implementation in Tegra 3 wasn't particularly impressive (read: awful), and I honestly think the 70% battery savings tossed by ARM is bollocks -- even besides the fact that the baseline isn't mentioned (i.e. 70% more efficient than what at what exactly?).

Why?

Pull up your battery stats and look at what's consuming the vast majority of your battery life. It is and always will be the screen. Until we develop technologies that make screens far more energy-efficient or batteries vastly larger in the same space (Apple?), marginally more efficient processors won't really mean much.

The worst-case scenario for big.LITTLE is that we'll have a quad-core A7 chipset doing the majority of our light work including interface operations, which would most likely make the phones feel slower than current A9/A15-core chipsets as far as interface is concerned. I don't know about you but even Exynos 4 to Qualcomm S4 Pro is a noticeable jump in UI response, so I'm not ready for a step backward. My understanding is that these chipsets can't even be utilized together for the same tasks -- lack of multi-threadedness aside, the most performance we'll realize from Exynos 5 will be about the same as other quad-core A15 SoCs.

Additionally, the Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy Note and even Galaxy S3 all utilized pentile SAMOLED displays. My understanding is that non-pentile SAMOLEDs can't effectively be produced with sufficient pixel density (e.g. "Retina" threshold) -- hence why the larger Note 2 screen is the first Galaxy phone to feature a non-pentile 720P SAMOLED. Do you guys really think the manufacturing process has improved enough to produce a 1080P non-pentile SAMOLED? I'm seriously expecting a pentile display in the Galaxy S4 at this rate.
[General Topics] hot_spare:
What a load of crap was that? You make absolutely no sense at all.

What is the point of this thread? You are assuming a lot of things and based on these assumptions you are expecting people to discuss.
[General Topics] friend'scatdied:
What doesn't make sense about it?

ARM's been pretty clear about how big.LITTLE's state-switching works.

If you take the mW consumption of a modern screen and a modern processor in any given state (idle or max), it's not really mathematically possible to increase battery life by 70% with just the processor.

I agree the pentile thing is pretty baseless, since Samsung came out and said it was for longevity. The matrix would probably be at least like the Note 2's, though no telling.

I'd like to understand from your perspective what the benefits of big.LITTLE could possibly be over power-gating?
[General Topics] klin1344:
He was stating his thoughts based on what is known about the big.little architecture and the exynos 5 octa revealed at CES. There is no crap about that. Maybe you should read his post thoroughly and learn a bit about the new exynos 5 soc, then it would make more sense to you.

To OP: I think we would just have to wait until the SOCs are benchmarked to judge whether the tegra 4, snapdragon 600 & 800, or the exynos 5 octa is better.

And yes, going from an A9 to A15 is a major jump. ARM claims that each generation, (eg. A8 to A9 to A15) will give double the performance of the last gen architecture.
[General Topics] barondebxl:
That was a HUGE load of crap by the op, someone please go to the store and get more toilet paper.:p
[General Topics] friend'scatdied:
It makes me wonder about the A50-series architecture, which really seems like the generation to wait for. If the Nexus 10 is any indication the huge jump in the upcoming Galaxy S4 generation should be the GPU, whose speed improvements will more than offset pushing 2.25x as many pixels.

I thought the recent hexagon/diamond-subpixel arrangement rumors about the Galaxy S4 were pretty interesting. Makes me interested to see how such an arrangement will hold up against non-pentile 1080P since I thought the S3 was pretty soundly trounced by the One X as far as display quality goes.
[General Topics] i9100g user:
Lol seriously this OP

btw I was thinking if exynos octa would have some advantage over other processors in multi threaded benchmarks. .

sent from an Galaxy s3 GT I9300

Running perseus kernel 6 , XELLA 4.1.2 leaked build

:D xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1784401

Dont click,you might regret , I won't be responsible if you brick ur head
[General Topics] souleater11:
i agree with Op. snapdragon 800 2.3 FTW
[General Topics] klin1344:
Honestly we cannot judge until the benchmarks are out...but I place my bets on the snapdragons, as they have smoked this generation of quad core tegra and exynos chips with just their dual core s4's.

Plus I always stick to Qualcomm because of the availability of always updated source from CAF.
[General Topics] i9100g user:
I don't think s600 would compete ,but s800 would be competitive

sent fromXperia sT21i

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[AT&T LG Optimus G] Joecascio2000:
http://www.xda-developers.com/announcements/make-your-voice-heard-vote-on-the-next-xda-cases/

Vote vote vote!
[AT&T LG Optimus G] johnbyebye:
Lol the One X "40%"

*grumble* --"
[AT&T LG Optimus G] Joecascio2000:
It doesn't matter if we get first. I'm sure they will be looking at the poll results just to determine each next case. So let's show them we want one.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] johnbyebye:
Oh good 'cause I voted for the One X. Ha. :silly:
[AT&T LG Optimus G] tdnick:
Voted. Hope we get top 3
[AT&T LG Optimus G] Jank4AU:
I cast my vote
[AT&T LG Optimus G] REDFOCZ:
Casted me vote

Sent From My AT&T LG Optimus G
[AT&T LG Optimus G] MrZim4:
Is this going to be a Sprint or AT&T case??

Either way we are number two
[AT&T LG Optimus G] brianrudy:
Count me in
[AT&T LG Optimus G] bassitone:
Cast my vote. Hopefully we get it, and they remember us AT&T folk

Sent from my LG Optimus G - I can't believe it's not Project Butter!
[AT&T LG Optimus G] MrPlNK:
2nd place!
[AT&T LG Optimus G] Joecascio2000:
HTC Evo 4G LTE is close behind. We need more votes.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] DeathmonkeyGTX:
It probably wouldn't be for the E970.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] Joecascio2000:
Cruzerlite already has cases for both LG OGs. There is no reason if the LGOG got enough votes, they wouldn't make both.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] SnowLeopardJB:
Voted! Third place now :(
[AT&T LG Optimus G] bleached45:
Yeah, I just voted and saw we have gone down a spot. How sad. :crying:
[AT&T LG Optimus G] droidiac13:
Come on people. Let's get out the vote!!

Sent from my Nocturnal'd LGOG!
[AT&T LG Optimus G] sharkboy0901:
Second place! Keep voting we're almost number 1.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] brianrudy:
I voted!
[AT&T LG Optimus G] VannMannE39:
placed my vote!
[Android Apps and Games] kalaner:
Hi,

I have samsung galaxy s3 and installed GANGSTAR RIO: CITY OF SAINTS V1.1.2 and when i try to start the it just does not work so please guys help me.
[Android Apps and Games] zorrigas:
Buy game on Play Store and works!
[Android Apps and Games] y0yerrj0sh:
Maybe he did buy it on the playstore, but there a recent big update that was supposed to fix bugs add some things etc and maybe it's not working right.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] onecrzyasian:
Is there a way to remove the audio tweaks from the Perseus kernel? Because i think they are co routing and preventing the awesome beats from working on my note 2.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] silentecho13:
I never had an issue. I found the audio adjustments on kernel level sound world's better than awesome beats though. The tweaks here allow you to take advantage of the Wolfson DAC in the phone. Have you tried playing around with them?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] c0reyl:
I have an OTG cable and a fiio E10. They work on my nexus 7. Why wont it work with my s3? Do I need a custom ROM?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] CZ Eddie:
http://www.head-fi.org/t/595071/android-phones-and-usb-dacs/1380#post_9064874