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[Galaxy S 4 General] AlexDmi:
Here's more answers for you, guys :)

Haven't noticed any lag when opening the Contacts app

Stock messenger can send text messages to more than one recipient - either by selecting all the persons in one group, either by manually adding them to the list of recipients

Creaking at the back - yes, it does squeak a bit, but it's not that disturbing. Seems to be more solid than the SIII, to be honest

Screen with gloves - I don't have any of the fancy touch screen gloves, so I used some 2 normal pairs of gloves - one fleece & one leather. I can tell you it's pretty annoying to use it with gloves. You have to be very firm when touching, push hard, you get lots of "fake" clicks... It's pretty much the same as it was on the SIII.

RAM management - well, after clicking on "clear memory", the phone still has 1.09 - 1.1 GB of ram occupied. So I'm guessing that's just the TW. But no, even after clicking on "clear memory", the TW won't reload. I'll check with more apps opened to see, but I doubt it. It's pretty lag-free and well optimized, this might be the reason why it's not reloading...

Battery test - because this is the last day I'll have it (for now), let me tell you how I'll do this: took the phone from charging at 10 AM. 100% battery. WiFi on, 3G on, max brightness. Until now, I've tested the features, made movies, etc. It's at 86%, with a screen on time of 50 minutes. I'll try and "abuse" it until tonight (3G browsing, brightness, I still have to do some camera tests, some gaming tests, benchmarks etc) and see where it stands.
[Galaxy S 4 General] hung2900:
About ram occupied, open Settings -> App Manager -> Running and you can see a different number

Quite good battery life, but with battery saving on or off? It's supposed to have about 6 - 6.5 hours screen on time with maximum brightness at that speed.

How many hours had your phone run from 10 AM to "Until now"?
[Galaxy S 4 General] emwno:
What about the boot.img and the recovery.img? I have everything set up. (asking again as this is your last day with it, for now)
[Galaxy S 4 General] BicolXpress:
Can you please do the 360 photo and drama shot.
[Galaxy S 4 General] pack21:
Battery seems be nice.
[Galaxy S 4 General] krabman:
If its not too late can you flesh out the LED notifications? Word has it that any app which has a notification can have a color assigned to it and that there may be other adjustments but I have seen nothing from someone that actually has the phone to confirm.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Twisted Tom:
Thanks for the answer. I was actually referring to grouping texts rather than sending them in masses. While receiving text messages on the s3 from an iPhone or other messenger that groups them (nexus, htc phones, gosms, etc) the messages come in as mms messages from different people. Responding to them all on the Touchwiz messenger will not group your texts into their conversation. Its basically the ability to fully chat with multiple people at once. I just wanted to see if samsung added this into the software as its something that's really missing that a lot of others have.
[Galaxy S 4 General] barondebxl:
Thanks a lot @OP for all the info!!
[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
Hey I also got S4 but octa variant - feel free to ask :D
[Galaxy S 4 General] sohebq:
Jump in and start educating us, we are just so desperate :D

sent from: The New S-Pen :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] CLARiiON:
First question -- are you a Samsung mobiler?
[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
I work at Samsung's R&D if that's what do you mean.
[Galaxy S 4 General] jokester902:
Does the weight of the phone feel uneven? Looking forward to upgrading from my 3d, the uneven weight is one of the many things that annoy me about my evo.
[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
Actually, it's better than S3. Phone is lightweight, of course, but there are no curved edges on the sides, and thanks to that it's even more comfortable to hold it.
[Galaxy S 4 General] CLARiiON:
Good to hear from a Samsung engineer itself!

Few requests I have --

1] Does the Exynos version support 60fps video recording? or how about slow/fast motion capture as in Note 2?

2] Codec support like AC3/FLAC/mkv etc., Can you also test the H.265 support?

3] Please run the Androbench test.

I had noticed a bit of 'lag' when you initially open the widgets page. Just when you try to scroll the widgets for the first time. Is this something because of pre-production software?

cheers!
[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
1] 30fps/1080p; Features from Note2 are also present here in camera application.

2] as far as I know FLAC support for sure, have no info about the others.

3] Unfortunately I cannot run benchmarks and upload them to the public media, as long as the phone is not officially sold ;) Samsung's policy.

About the widgets page. It is normal behaviour of "first run" when entering this section. It also happens on this hardware monster S4 ;)
[Galaxy S 4 General] Brendo:
Does it have LTE?
[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
No
[Galaxy S 4 General] krabman:
Can you flesh out if notification colors can be chosen on a per app basis? If so just the stock apps or any app which sets a notification? Can the LED interval be changed? Can the LED do multiple notifications, for example flash green for email and then blue for sms if you have both waiting? Thanks.
[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
Unfortunately, LED settings are all the same as in Note2/S3. You have to use third-party application to control the LED notifications. Stock firmware has only blue for notif, red/green for charging.
[Galaxy S 4 General] cbazz1378:
I personally am interested to know how well the scrolling with your eyes feature works or the hovering gestures. Most preliinary vids I have seen show it not working so well.
[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
It's actually not scrolling with eyes. It detects your face and when you tilt the phone, it scrolls the page. Hovering gestures works all right.
[Galaxy S 4 General] krabman:
Ok thanks for that. I had read contradictory information on it and hadn't seen it shown in any of the videos yet.
[Galaxy S 4 General] ilabs:
Can you comment on the battery life difference between the octa and snapdragon variant?
[Galaxy S 4 General] sohebq:
before you give it back, I would like you to summarize things, whats your opinion that is it worth upgrading or just an incremental update from s3?
[Galaxy S 4 General] Derpston:
Nevermind
[Galaxy S 4 General] Canard caché:
and 9505 has lte?:o
[Galaxy S 4 General] CLARiiON:
I will shoot a few more questions.

Is this final/release software version that you have? or still pre-production? We had seen both white and black menu. What do you have?

What is the unusable capacity in model you have?

Any 'office' software bundled?

Comments on the new camera interface. Does it feel more intuitive/easier compared to earlier interface?

If you have a S3/Note 2, can you compare the photo size with S4? Take a photo of same subject and compare the sizes.

cheers!
[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
Of course 9505 has LTE, as for battery life, I cannot compare it practically as I do not own 9505 variant. But as far as I remember using it at work - battery life is very comparable. Yes, I have final firmware with black UI. 10gb is standard user space here in my model. For my knowledge Polaris Office is pre-installed. Camera interface is way better for my than S3/Note2. It is almost the same like in Samsung Galaxy Camera. I currently do not have Note2 at home as I left it at work.

As for me - S4 is really a great new flagship model. It's really fast and way more UI speed fluent than S3/Note2. Many fancy features and applications are really fun to use. I recommend this device to everyone who has trouble to whether buy it or not. Way better than Note2/S3 in my opinion.
[Galaxy S 4 General] bedi.gursimran:
Cool. And Is the final firmware really final as apparently Samsung is trying hard to make the final firmware bug free and better optimized. And Is low light better than S3?
[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
Never used low light feature in camera if you mean that, both in S3 and S4. And yes, the firmware is absolutely final as it says. As I used it for 2 weeks, I saw no bugs at all and everything works flawless.
[Galaxy S 4 General] MoshuXXL:
The camera FOV (field of view) is smaller (compared to S3/Note2 or other flagships)?
[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
I think it's almost the same FOV as in S3/Note2. If you hold S4 and S3/Note2 in the same spot, personally, S4 is less "zoomed". But it's marginal, you won't tell the difference without both devices aside.
[Galaxy S 4 General] AlexDmi:
Hmm, I think I've seen it scroll with my eyes as well :) It works with both tilting the device & with your eyes. I'll post a video on Wednesday where I'm trying to show how that works :)

I had somewhere ~ 9.5 GB available for storage on the 9505.

I'd personally upgrade my SIII or Note 2 with a new S4.
[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
100% sure it does not work with the eyes. Trust me, I have an access to concepts ;)
[Galaxy S 4 General] AlexDmi:
To be honest, I wasn't paying too much attention when I tested this, so I can't guarantee it was related to the eyes or with the head's position relative to the screen / front camera. However, while holding the phone in the same vertical position (absolutely no tilting), moving your eyes / head up & down will make the page scroll. I'll look again at the video I made and make sure I'm not talking nonsense here... but my impression stays as above :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
Yeah, sorry for not being clear - I've just checked on my S4. It also works with head movement. But not eyes ;)
[Galaxy S 4 General] adz63:
I have been seeing on various , posts / threads and sites that the actual memory for a 16gb version is (some say between 8.5gb and 10gb ) can you confirm this ?
[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
8,82gb to be precise.
[Galaxy S 4 General] adz63:
thats for the sd600 version yes ?
[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
exynos octa, currently I have no access to snapdragon version.
[Galaxy S 4 General] barondebxl:
just to add a note on the widget page, the nexus 4 also lags on that area. I think it's a "stock" android issue. If you use something totally different like the sense widget page then it doesn't lag but if you use the tab like the stock android then it lags. Not a touchwiz issue though.
[Galaxy S 4 General] i9100g user:
Can you run glbenchmark 2.7/2.5 and post results ? Would be good to know exynos's gpu performance.

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[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
Like I've said before and someone mentioned it earlier - I cannot post benchmark scores until the phone is officially released to the stores. Samsung's policy.
[Galaxy S 4 General] AlexDmi:
I've tested GL Benchmark, Antutu, AndroBenchmark, Octane... I'll post the scores after the release :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] Thin_Bezel:
Well,at least impressive or....?
[Galaxy S 4 General] i9100g user:
I am eagerly waiting for Wednesday then.

sent from an Galaxy s3 GT I9300

Running perseus kernel 33.1 , XELLA 4.1.2 leaked build

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

The other side of XDA :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S 4 General] MustWarnothers:
Is the GPS on the unit just as good and or better than on the Galaxy S3? I know it has GLONASS, so it's going to be pretty good no matter what.

I'm interested to know how fast it locks, and if you're able to run an app like GPS Test and see how many locked satellites you get with a clear view of the sky.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Warm_ice:
What did you do to get those devices in advance?
[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
Like I've mentioned before - I work at Samsung's R&D, I have an access to every project and can use it freely for my private purposes.
[Galaxy S 4 General] barondebxl:
Nice! Samsung knows how to optimize the sh*t out of a phone!
[Galaxy S 4 General] Isadora:
Any self-bricking features included in the eMMC firmware this time?
[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
No idea ;)
[Galaxy S 4 General] inphamous36:
Hey. Could you test out the LED options with a third party app? See what kinds of colors we can get
[Galaxy S 4 General] Mittaa:
As far as I know GLONASS system isn't especially precise but maybe combined with GPS it gives an overall better signal and coverage?

*** EDIT ***

I don't know if S4 combines GPS & GLONASS? Anybody knows?

According to Russian System of Differentional Correction and Monitoring's data, as of 2010, precisions of GLONASS navigation definitions (for p=0.95) for latitude and longitude were 4.46—7.38 m with mean number of NSV equals 7—8 (depending on station). In comparison, the same time precisions of GPS navigation definitions were 2.00—8.76 m with mean number of NSV equals 6—11 (depending on station). Civilian GLONASS used alone is therefore very slightly less accurate than GPS. On high latitudes (north or south), GLONASS' accuracy is better than that of GPS due to the orbital position of the satellites.

Some modern receivers are able to use both GLONASS and GPS satellites together, providing greatly improved coverage in urban canyons and giving a very fast time to fix due to over 50 satellites being available. In indoor, urban canyon or mountainous areas, accuracy can be greatly improved over using GPS alone. For using both navigation systems simultaneously, precisions of GLONASS/GPS navigation definitions were 2.37—4.65 m with mean number of NSV equals 14—19 (depends on station).
[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
Already used LightFlow, supports all in-app colours. It is still the same RGB LED like in S3.
[Galaxy S 4 General] inphamous36:
So no hope for like purple or orange or something like that? Sorry, not too familiar with the gs3. Coming from the one xl where it is either red or green that's it
[Galaxy S 4 General] fix-this!:
They do but as soon as aosp comes you will loose 99.9% of it.
[Galaxy S 4 General] barondebxl:
never cared for aosp
[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
Of course they are present ;) You can emulate whole RGB range with third party apps ;)
[Galaxy S 4 General] fix-this!:
Ill load it as soon as it comes lol.
[Galaxy S 4 General] barondebxl:
Why not just get a Nexus 4 and get the best aosp support?
[Galaxy S 4 General] inphamous36:
Thank you sir. You are most helpful. Im still going to get it regardless, was just curious.

Anyone know when T-Mobile in the US are gobs start taking preorders?
[Galaxy S 4 General] fix-this!:
3 reasons.

I dont like lg.

The n4 sucks

The s4 will be superior.
[Galaxy S 4 General] barondebxl:
Yeah but from your earlier post you're about AOSP. The only thing LG did was building the phone, Google handles the rest. AOSP on the N4 is blazing fast and the N4 doesn't suck. I'm saying this cause I never understood why people buy an HTC, Samsung to throw aosp on it when nexus devices are available and are great options ( best aosp options). And S4 will never be superior as far as AoSP goes to a nexus.
[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
Personally, I am using Note2 with CM10.1 aside with S4 stock firmware. I like to sometimes switch to AOSP just to feel the blazing speed of ROM and few features that Sammy does not support. On the other hand I also like stock Samsung's smart features, so I am frequently changing ROMs from stock to AOSP etc. ;)
[Galaxy S 4 General] barondebxl:
Yeah so do I. I was just saying that cause Sometimes folks buy a non nexus device just to throw aosp on it. If aosp is the reason why someone buys a phone than there is no better option than a nexus. Sorry for the OT guys!
[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
That is true, I am also using Nexus sometimes and there is no comparision between Nexus official ROM support, and CM on Samsung. Even if they are almost indentical in the way of features. As you said - If You only want AOSP, your choice is Nexus. No ports will provide the same experience.
[Galaxy S 4 General] j510:
Can you name those few features samsung doesnt support? Just curious. I always saw nexus lacking in many features
[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
D*mn fading LED notification for example, which drives me crazy, because I see no point in not having this feature. And also custom colors for LED. I do not understand the policy in this one.
[Galaxy S 4 General] fix-this!:
The n4 doesnt have lte either.
[Galaxy S 4 General] CLARiiON:
How smooth is the browser?

Try these graphic-intensive sites:

http://www.polygon.com/

http://www.theverge.com/

http://androidawesomeness.tumblr.com/

I don't expect it to be very smooth with such demanding webpages. Just want to see how much better it is compared to previous generation.
[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
butter-smooth, just checked them in "desktop version" and with flash installed. Everything works super-fluent.
[Galaxy S 4 General] i9100g user:
Have you tried any games yet? (like modern combat 4,real racing ,etc) or another game? Were there any lags present:confused:
[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
I've only played Dead Trigger, as I rarely play on handhelds. Just like the browsing, smooth, I think locked 60fps if it supports it of course ;)
[Galaxy S 4 General] rkial:
Any info on how the battery handles gaming? Does it drain at the rate of 35-40% for every hour or is it better than that?
[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
Sorry, did not check battery performance with games.
[Galaxy S 4 General] i9100g user:
Looks great from your description:D

Well one more thing how is the sound quality compared to s3/note2 in both headphones and loudspeaker(and loudness of speaker),since exynos variant has better DAC compared to s600 variant,sound should be better on exynos variant.

Just curious how it compares to s3/note 2 which also have WolfsonDAC.

Thanks in advance;)

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[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
Sound quality is the main reason I have changed N2 for S4 :) Quality both on earphones and loudspeaker is superb comparing to N2/S3. Really clean playback and the loudspeaker is the same as in N2 however it is little quieter. Ive hated S3's loudspeaker that's why Ive changed to N2 and now S4 ;) real masterpiece.
[Galaxy S 4 General] i9100g user:
That somewhat tells that sound quality would be great.Thanks:D
[Galaxy S 4 General] CLARiiON:
Ok. Thanks for the updates so far. I am looking for questions to keep you guys busy!

Have you checked the difference in display 'quality' with different screen modes? What's ur analysis on those modes?

How does the remote control 'watchon' app work? does it work with any TV? is that an useful app in terms of daily usage?

apps included in multi-window? can you add any app of your choice?
[Galaxy S 4 General] Yargoo:
Hi tehaerpl,

Thanks for answering all our questions :good:

Like you said the loudspeaker is better then the one from S3. I already hoped this when I looked at the insides of the S4. The Loudspeaker is twice the size of the s3 speaker. Why did Samsung make such small holes in the back cover for the speaker? Doesnt it loose quality here?
[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
Have no idea but it's true - when I take off the back cover, the loudspeaker is not so "muffled".
[Galaxy S 4 General] ipmanwck:
At least with plastic we can drill some small holes and if it hoes wrong just buy a new back cover cheap :)

Custom Stock Rom 4.1 Eternity

Brilliantly Stock
[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
http://m.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s4_vs_galaxy_siii-review-918.php here's a review and comparison of S4 and S3. I think no comments are needed :)

Sent from Galaxy S4 Exynos Octa variant ;)
[Galaxy S 4 General] LostMyMarbles:
I'm not sure if anyone said this already but I'd like to know how sound is comparable to the htc one in regards to loudness. Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 General] Yargoo:
Maybe your the guy to report this to Samsung :).

@ipmanwck: Lol. I Dont think this would look very nice :)

PS: Are those thick lines underneath the flashlight hole for any purpose? Is this field of 'lines' thinner then the rest of the cover? Is this for the wireless charching pad?
[Galaxy S 4 General] Brendo:
FM radio? Although here we (and I'd imagine most of the world) are moving to digital radio so I cant see FM radio being of much need

(was asked about for sd version, but not exynos)
[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
No FM in both
[Galaxy S 4 General] j510:
Thats all? Light flow solves both of those
[Galaxy S 4 General] msavic6:
How do you get a job like this? What schooling is necessary to qualify if I may ask?
[Galaxy S 4 General] fix-this!:
I want to know if its truley a life companion? If so my wife might get a bit jealous.
[Galaxy S 4 General] sorg:
tehaerp,

Can you give more info about IR application? What options Samsung provides for equipment not included in their database of IR codes? For example, i have media player and room light with IR. Is there options to add absent remotes like learning from originals?

http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=5063022
[Galaxy S 4 General] ZordaK_:
Thanks for all the info ;)

Battery life seems to be good.
[Galaxy S 4 General] andro_bedaiwi:
RAM

can you please tell me the free amount of ram after closing all apps with and without eye tracking .. air view .. hover??

thank you
[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
about 800mb

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From what I've checked it is only compatible with TV's, decoders and dvd/bluray players. Just like Peel from Note10.1

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It depends, if you want to be a software tester, you just need high school here. For engineer - college.

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Haha, good question :D As for me, yes it is truly a very useful phone. Lot of features you will surely use, and great hw underneath.
[Galaxy S 4 General] egyptian86:
sorry to bother you tehaerpl,but is sound levels and quality in calls loud and clear or you have problems because phonearena said its bad in making calls and what about listening to music in handfree ?
[Galaxy S 4 General] MaKTaiL:
Can you test Epic Citadel?
[Galaxy S 4 General] AlexDmi:
There you have it :) the s4 in my hand. I later tonight - the videos :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] AlexDmi:
And another one with the black version, plus the smart cover
[Galaxy S 4 General] rion_j:
that s-view cover looks really great! curious, when the cover is closed and screen is off and a notification comes in, does the window inside the s-view cover light up?
[Galaxy S 4 General] tehaerpl:
I do not have any problems with calls, the quality is good, you can clearly hear voice. About the loudspeaker - it is the same like in Note2 - means superb quality.
[Galaxy S 4 General] rion_j:
curious about sound shot. what type of file is that once you capture a picture with sound? and can that be shared via email/message?
[Galaxy S 4 General] allyrocky:
@OP , Does it have LoJack Tracking?
[Galaxy S 4 General] ApokrifX:
Could you help with this, please? :o

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2239140
[Galaxy S 4 General] AlexDmi:
So here are some videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmF7Q_Q8pPI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M_SnqXRxmg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VD-UHxaYgk

The rest are currently being uploaded, but because it's 1 AM here... I'll go to sleep and let the PC upload them. If you want notifications, feel free to subscribe to my channel :) If not, I'll post the rest tomorrow morning, when I wake up.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Sarcron:
Great videos, that's actually the most in-depth demonstration of air view I've seen yet. Should be useful for me when I'm on the job since I have crap on my hands 90% of the time.
[Galaxy S 4 General] osi13:
I don't know if you have the required cables, but does OTG + MHL + power work out of the box?
[Galaxy S 4 General] ian1:
Are the videos of the octa version?
[Galaxy S 4 General] osi13:
If the videos are reviewing the GT-I9505, then it's the S600 version. From what I understand, the GT-I9500 is the Exynos version.
[Galaxy S 4 General] adz63:
Nice videos. I won't be using that air swipe stuff anytime soon. Easier and faster to just use the screen . And person above think it's SD600 version going by clock speed in antutu bench
[Galaxy S 4 General] sohebq:
The air gestures aren, t very smooth, still fun to play with.

sent from: The New S-Pen :)