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[Galaxy S 4 General] barondebxl:
@OP ( dont wanna quote the whole post lol), trust me when i say that i am one of the biggest phone junkies around, i owned almost all of the flagship of 2012 and plan on owning quite a few in 2013. I see what you're saying when you say " meh" cause phones like the nexus 4, S3, Optimus G and note 2 are already mighty powerful but i think this is where samsung and HTC lead the pack and differentiate themselves with other brands. HTC came out with the best design a phone ever had ( in my opinion) and fantastic sound quality while samsung is expanding its crazy awesome features ( gimmicky for some, absolutely great for me). Its hard to outdo the great phones that came out last year so my question is what did you expect?
[Galaxy S 4 General] Al Gore:
I think you need to find more hobbies/occupations in your life tbh.
[Galaxy S 4 General] JaeKay:
But to be honest, we are at a point where technology, and especially phones are improving at a very systematical and incremental ways.

Slightly better processor

Slightly better camera

Slightly better screen

Slightly better battery

Really, we will be stuck on this pattern until something revolutionary comes into the mobile market.
[Galaxy S 4 General] SlimJ87D:
Yeah, but with all that, there's a lot that's looked over. Like if you have a Samsung Smart TV you can stream what is on your TV to your phoen anywhere you go.

We now have a IR controller with a built in TV Guide. Built in reminder to remind you also. Links to Rotten Tomatoes for movies.

There's a lot more. I just don't know what is revolutionary anymore. The problem is other technology has to catch up, like TVs, Amplifiers and audio receivers, car GPS, etc. The only thing the phone can do now is control and interact with other things.

What can honestly be revolutionary with current technology and our phones now?
[Galaxy S 4 General] Squirrel1620:
How about work on voice call clarity. This quality has been the same Damn thing since the nokia brick phones lol
[Galaxy S 4 General] Euthye:
The thing is in a day I make max 20 min call time but day in day out 4+hours screen time, iyam this is the norm so this dictates developments, so I bet we get stuck with ok call quality.
[Galaxy S 4 General] j510:
20 min the norm? Speak for yourself.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Euthye:
I know but how about getting a different phone if your prime use is phoning, like a 2g that'll give you 2/3 days, or if you're making calls while indoors plug it in or use a land line, flagship smartphones are computing devices not really phones any more.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Shammyh:
While I agree that the upgrades in the GS4 are barely a full generation ahead of the GS3, which is unfortunate given how much a jump the GS2 was over the GS1, and how much the GS1 was ahead of anything else at its time... there is a sort-of point about diminishing returns here as well. It's harder to "improve" certain aspects but so much, as we're beginning to hit the limits of what can even be perceived as an upgrade.

I mean, think about the screen. Very low res -> QVGA -> WVGA -> 720p -> 1080p. Well that's great, but for the next generation, where do you go? There's really no perceivable need to put anything higher into a sub 5" device. Maybe flexible screens? Unbreakable screens? etc etc? That's still not gonna actually increase the photonic information presented to your eyes from the device.

Or take the physical phone body. The GS4 is pushing the screen so far that it's easily covering 80-90% of the entire front surface area. So okay, next gen, you make the entire front surface a screen. Then what? Make the phone thinner? Well, at a certain point you hit a limit there as well. People can only grasp and comfortably hold objects of up to a certain depth. When you get it smaller than that, you're basically just printing a screen onto a knife blade. So that's no good...

Let's try connectivity. LTE and 802.11ac? Most cell networks couldn't saturate their LTE links if they tried, they simply don't have the capacity yet. And even if they did... You're telling me you can even find a use-case where your phone is pumping out/in 100+ mbit/s of data? I mean, at home it's nice to move music/videos/files around sure. But I highly doubt anyone is routinely moving gigabytes of data per hour on any sort of mobile device. Once you hit what you need for say HD video streaming... where else is there to go? Again, the next generation doesn't really need to move data any faster than this.

Sensors? Well, there's actually lots of room for improvement here. And also, un-coincidentally, this is where the GS4 has some the of greatest advantage over other current/last generation devices. While we're still pretty far away from a proper tricorder, we can now sense via magnetometer, accelerometer, gyroscope, light sensor, infrared sensor, microphones, thermometer, hydrometer, barometer, and two cameras... But building sensors isn't the hard part. It's building clever software to do something with these sensors.

I could go on further... but the point I should think is clear. Yea, it's a bit disappointing that nothing since the original GS1/GS2 has really been a full "generation and a half" ahead of the competition... but a large portion of that is simply because we're beginning to hit the ceiling with some of these improvements. Yea, in 20 years "phones" will be unpredictably evolved from what we have now. But I bet the screens still won't have any higher effective PPI than what we're approaching now... :eek:
[Galaxy S 4 General] Shammyh:
Wrong and wrong.

1) There's a reason you need to post elsewhere first.

2) The fact that you say "what the hell" to that requirement further shows you are not yet ready to post in development.

3) Spamming random unrelated comments into random threads is not the way to reach the 10 post minimum

I suggest you start by reading the rules and the stickies.

Have a nice day, and welcome to XDA.
[Galaxy S 4 General] fix-this!:
Im only getting it becuase i wanted a smaller note 2 with no spen. The s4 gives me that with plenty of horsepower. Plus the 32gb $250 price point is a good sell. If the htc one had a replaceable battery it would of been a no brainer based on design alone.
[Galaxy S 4 General] jtc276:
*Face palm* If there's one place where you never post something like that, it's XDA. The moderators here take people who break the rules pretty seriously.
[Galaxy S 4 General] jahjah440:
I wish we could have a revolutionary phone come out like the Galaxy SII did. Even today, Galaxy SII is unsurpassed with performance. Is there any app or game that it can't run? I mean, it came out nearly 2 years ago, and still has not been matched by an app.

I hope Galaxy SV comes in the way of the revolution.
[Galaxy S 4 General] j510:
I never said my prime use is phone calls. I just said 20 min is not the norm. And again where do you get your information. No matter what phone whether it is a dumb phone or smart phone, one of the main focus of a phone period involves making phone calls. Otherwise it would be called a multimedia device and not a phone.
[Galaxy S 4 General] JesseMT4G:
Wait, what, lol!

Pretty sure the Gs1 started the trend there. Gs2 was nice, but nothing revolutionary.... The s3 was by far the best in the series thus far, until this one comes out.

With that said, I like my Note 2 more so than my s3.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Strategist:
I think the Note series has been pretty revolutionary and Samsung has worked hard to come up with clever things to do with the stylus.

I don't know what big hardware improvements are left to do. The one I would like the most is 3-D capabilities, both screen and camera, like the Evo 3D. I would imagine in the last two years the technology has gotten better and Samsung could market it a lot better than HTC. Plus there is more 3D content than two years ago. Samsung could also do cool things with 3D and the hover technology.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Euthye:
Ah well tough break, I guess this phone isn't for you then.
[Galaxy S 4 General] 4ktvs:
I have to disagree about LTE. That 100mbs conection is shared across possibly 100's of users and it does not take alot to bring it down to it's knees.

Video of sub 500kbs LTE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-VVwPqhXwI

That and really 2,3,4,5,10 GB is not really that much data if you plan using the LTE speeds fully. If I didn't have a unlimited plan, my bill would be higher in a month than what my phone cost.

I will say your right about the screen 1080p is good, well really for most 720p does the trick. ( I can still see the dot's on a 720p 4.3in screen though, but most can't.)
[Galaxy S 4 General] Shammyh:
Very true about practical LTE speeds... however that's hardly the phone's fault. And ditto as to data plans. Don't agree with either the pricing, or the quality of service with most American phone providers... but then again, I'm not quite in a position to drop say, 75-100 billion to build a competitor from the ground up. If you are, then by all means, hit it up. I'd be glad to help you out. But until then, we gotta work with what we got.

Anyway, I was referring exclusively to the device itself, and hence the actual air-to-network interface. Which again, I do think is more than sufficient for current and foreseeable future needs.
[Galaxy S 4 General] ipmanwck:
Iphone 5 and dazzle are not in the same sentence ......seriously !!! The ui is unchanged since release in 2007 !!!! Cmon dude that's 6 years of standing still !

Custom Stock Rom 4.1 Eternity

Brilliantly Stock
[Nokia Lumia 920] hawc1506:
[SOLVED]: Realized that my time zone in outlook.com was different than the one on Outlook 2013. Changing the time zones to match has fixed my problem.

When I use Outlook 2013 to create an appointment on Monday any time after 16:00 (4:00 pm), the appointment gets pushed to the Sunday on the phone.

If I tap into the appointment, the event date will still say "Monday" but its pinned location on the calendar is on Sunday.

Can anyone try reproducing this?

Process:

Create an appointment on Monday at 16:30 (4:30 pm) on Outlook 2013

Sync the calendar with your phone

Check your phone calendar to see if the phone pinned the event on the following Sunday or the Sunday before

Thanks much!
[Nokia Lumia 920] miodrage:
What gets pinned to the live tile is the notification, which goes 24h earlier than the event originates. The alarm itself will go off at the time u have specified. It sux big time, but I dunno how to by-pass this. Tried everything :(
[Nokia Lumia 920] hawc1506:
Oh I'm not talking about the live tile. I'm talking about the location of the event in the calendar app itself. Are your notifications going off too early?
[Nokia Lumia 920] miodrage:
Just for the birthdays which r downloaded from FB, they go off exactly 1 day earlier - it seems that this is the default setting and cannot be altered.
[Nokia Lumia 920] hawc1506:
That's interesting. Facebook doesn't display birthdays on my phone at all. Do I have to enable it somewhere?
[Nokia Lumia 920] miodrage:
Go to ur calendar settings, and there enable birthday calendar.
[Android Themes] DrDee:
Another bootanimation, a little bit of creepy this time.

The photo is stolen from somewhere and if there is a problem I will take this post down or credit it, I was just taken with it and wanted to use it on my phone.

Creepy Dedgrrl bootanimation

Bootanimation and wallpapers

Copy the zip to system/media, rename to bootanimation.zip and set to correct permissions, search if you get stuck, lots of great tutorials here.

(bootanimation and wallpapers are 1280x720).
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] stevebristol:
Hi,

I have a very recently purchased XDA II.

I was under the impression that the battery time was considerably improved.

Although I have turned down the backlight brightness when on battery power, it still starts to loose power when I receive or send a SMS for example.

Is this normal or do I have a duff battery ?

Steve
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] Rudegar:
try turning off bluetooth when you dont use it

it's suppose to be a batt hog
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] stevebristol:
Yup,

done that. I only have BT on when I am actually using my headset.

Any other idea's

Steve
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] Rudegar:
when does it auto turn off ?

when does the backlight turn off ?

are there any SD cards connected seem to recall that they eat batt aswell
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] MoistVelvet:
I've had mine a week, have the same power drain problem. After charging it all last night I managed to use it as a PDA for a total of 40 mins over a 6 hour period today before the battery drained. No phone calls were made, Bluetooth disconnected (I do have a 256 MB card installed, but I don't know if this has anything to do with it), furthermore the backlight is set to the default setting and the auto power off set to 1 min. In any case I would expect to get more than 40 mins use of the PDA, the specification states upto 15 hours.

I took the unit back to the store, they say that this is a rare problem (yeah right :roll: ), they gave me a new battery which I am now recharging, hopefully this will work.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] dherrero:
mmmm, it's very strange.

I am doing a test now. I have a imate with the official imate upgrade. I have a gps sysonchip bt. One and half hours ago i connected the imate with the gps and i started a demo of 500 km. Now the battery is at 75%.....Maybe de last upgrade solved this problem.... :shock:
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] andyclap:
You should get far better performance than this.

Three things that can drain the power:

Communications/Peripherals - IR, bluetooth, SDIO wireless LAN etc. Disable all of them unless you're actually using them.

Processor hungry programs - check if you have anything running in the background that could prevent the device switching to full sleep mode.

Lack of radio signal - if you're out of contact with a base station, the device tries to connect at full power every 30s - a big battery drain, so if you know you're out of contact, turn off the radio.

However, even with everything running, I'd expect a running time way above 40mins, so it sounds like you have a hardware problem with your device. I easily get 3h full brightness, full processing (ie watching a movie or playing a game) with radio on.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] bloodwynd:
Turn IR off?

Is there anyway to actually turn the IR off on the XDA II?
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] andyclap:
Just the Start-Settings-Connections-Beam-Receive all incoming beams checkbox.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] MoistVelvet:
tried the new battery today, same procedure as yesterday (no bluetooth etc), had a slightly better performance today from the new battery, managed to get roughly an hours actual use out of the PDA (games etc) over a period of... 10 hours, ooh atleast it lasted the working day so must be better... however still no way near the 15 hours PDA work time as stated on the box!

However something I have noticed is that every now and then (after switching off the unit and just leaving it on the desk) the screen comes to life displaying a running program, (just how do you turn off the media player? I now realise it isnt with the "X"). Anyway why does it "power" back up? I wonder if this has anything to do with my power problem, that perhaps it has switched back on whilst in my pocket (BTW I have set the buttons so that they do not switch the PDA on accidently)

So, I'm recharging again, (I think I might take the MMC card out see if tht makes a difference). I expect something better for my EUR 500, what is the point of being able to go online anywhere if you have to be plugged into the mains! If I can't get the damn thing to work satisfactoraily by next week then it is going back to the shop, despite it being a Gucci shiny piece of kit!
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] Wiz:
@MoistVelvet: Actually, it;s not so much the device itself but the operating systems that is the cause of a few quirks. Luckily, a lot has been written on this forum and other forums on websites such as www.ppcw.net. A lot can been improved by limiting the number of programs that can be found in the \windows\startup folder of the XDA II. I'd suggest you have a look around in the various topics. I ended up honing my XDA II to a point where I am actually very very satisfied with it's performance ...
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] stevebristol:
Can someone repost the items in the windows start up folder than can be deleted and what they do on the XDA II.

I was surprised at the amount of apps in there, but dont know what I can safely delete.

Steve
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] MoistVelvet:
Wiz,

thanks for the tip, I'll have a look around.

Well the batery did last longer yesterday, managed to get through a whole workig day before it ran out, so the jury is still out!

Realised perhaps one of the reasons why the unit would switch itself on, whilst at work I have a very low signal, so every minute or two the signal strength would go up and switch the screen on. I have set to auto switch off after 1 min, but I wonder if there is there a way to stop it from switching on?
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] farnold:
Hm, my experience is quite different. I use it throughout the day with around 15 phone calls, at least 2 GPRS synchronisations, some other usage of contacts, calendar and email and when I get home it's still around 60 percent - the most drain appears to happen on the way back home when I use the BT headset...

When your uses so much more power you may like to check what kind of programs you use. First idea is to have a critical look at fancy today plugins... my worst experience was with Battery Pack, the best way to empty your battery :lol:

Maybe you like to use UpTime plugin (http://ae.inc.ru/uptime_t.html) which really tells you how much you actually use the PocketPC and which doesn't do anythings while it's switched off...
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] tadzio:
Actually, the reason it periodically switches on is the O2 Homezone application. Whenever your phone changes to a new base station (which can happen even if you don't move), the stupid Homezone app turns the phone on. This is a known issue, and the only known remedy is to disable the app completely (remove from Autostart folder, soft reset phone).

Cheers

Daniel
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] ansaar99:
Hi

I have an xdaII, which i load loads and loads of things onto. I did find that the battery was draining quite quickly. eg. charge it all night, just leaving it running in the day with hardly any use would drain the battery by about 90 percent! Bluetooth was off etc.

One time, the thing drained completely, and it needed a hardboot. Im going to send it back shortly for investigation/repairs.

However, since it hardbooted, i have not installed a thing. And i am finding that the battery is lasting a lot longer. I managed to go 3 days, of average usage, (few incoming/outgoing calls), without charging the battery!

This makes me think some apps must cause the battery to drain. I had battery app installed (that runs in today screen). I had fonix voicedial installed. I had quite a few games installed.

I think some software was causing the battery consumption,.. possibly battery pack.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] shire29:
re

I have previously had problems with battery drain, due to apps running in the background.

I also found specific apps like the battery pack, LAN sdio, bluetooth and the camera app, would drain the battery quickly.

Although you can manage closing apps down through settings/system/memory/running programmes I found the app Gigatask http://gigatask.com/ a simpler way to manage tasks.

There are others, but I found this suitable for my needs.

Now when I close an app I know it's closed and not running in the background draining the battery.

I still charge daily, habit now when I get home from work, but I have no worries about battery drain, and it rarely goes lower than 65% for a normal days use.

Cheers, Shire
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] mvl:
turning infrared beam recieve off will help a little

:wink:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilgenius:
So I just installed the latest nightly of cyonagenmod on my S3 which states in the changelog that it should include pie controls, however after searching everywhere I cannot seem to find them??

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slaphead20:
Checked the app drawer?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilgenius:
yupp checked everywhere :(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slaphead20:
Grab it from play store then ;)

Have you used a root explorer to check system apps? If it's in there it must be accessed in settings somewhere, if not then go play store
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] squ89r97:
just typed in google - cyanogenmod pie! came up with this http://www.geordienorman.com/pie-control-cyanogenmod/ - give it a look
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilgenius:
Yeh i came accross that article sill not luck. I just read that PIE is disabled for phones with hardware keys such as the S3 :S
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilgenius:
Still no luck. Downloaded the app from the play store. Not as elegant as the one on paranoid android but does the job.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] squ89r97:
just read through part of the CM10.1 thread - plenty of other folk confirm it as not working, but like you say PIE is working on PA, so i guess it's not disabled on S3's.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
No it most likely is disabled in CM but PA enables it so it can be used with their set up.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gbyers72:
Hey guys, thanks for linking to my site, so I guess this will not work on devices with hardware buttons then, will add that to the article :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] killergoa:
pie controls!

to activate pie controls, add the line: qemu.hw.mainkeys=0 to /system/build.prop

reboot

then proceed to activate pie controls in the settings (under system)

enable extended desktop under settings

then on the power button, activate it.

cheers
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darklegion4:
Hi,

I am currently running Tiny's ROM on my Droid Incredible. Due to requirements for an Android application I am developing, I need to test on a device that runs Android 2.2.

How can I go about downgrading my device to run a version of Android 2.2? I have a copy of Android 2.2 for the Droid Incredible.

When I try to flash the Android 2.2 ROM, I get these errors:

Amend scripting (update-script) is no longer supported.

Amend scripting was depreciated by Google in Android 1.5.

It was necessary to remove it when upgrading to the ClockworkMod 3.0 Gingerbread based recovery. Please switch to Edify scripting (updater-script and update-binary) to create working update zip packages.

Installation aborted.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
You must update the roms update binary and updater script, flash an older version of cwm recovery, or you could ruu to froyo.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tiny4579:
Just wondering why won't GB work? They're pretty similar in API aren't they? Also GB is the most common android version now.

And what cmlusco said if you need froyo.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darklegion4:
Thanks for the tips, I managed to downgrade by following the instructions here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=737400
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaepernick:
From the link:

Wait, why would the camcorder rely on the radio? Could the radio be the reason that the camcorder is so laggy in 10.1 or is it definitely the hardware acceleration?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gilhyde:
Hi

I am looking for casino games to be played for real money on a private network using Android devices. I can be contacted at timwil1963@gmail.com

Tim
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zxfinity:
I doubt you will find any developers.

Coding something like this would be really expensive.