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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Ls1ssz28:
Go to about phone, it's the IMEI number.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Ls1ssz28:
The protective plus case is legit
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] eyecon82:
and comes in handy for the wireless charging accessory ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] JasonJoel:
Nah. That'll be over $50 too...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] k2buckley:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00BW0XZO0

Anyone know if this is a real Samsung product?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] eyecon82:
For that price, I rather have a portable USB charger
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] lafester:
Looks just like the one on samsungs website. For a battery + charger for $25 (with coupon) thats not too bad.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] coojoe1000:
Actually it doubles as a portable usb charger if you read the description. Looks worth it to me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] eyecon82:
Yea, but it's only 2300 mAH of charge. I rather have a 5000 mAH one that's the same size and has a 2A output

This is one of the best. http://www.amazon.com/Satechi-Batte...4393&sr=1-6&keywords=Satechi+portable+charger
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Powerbird101:
Why the hell do all these battery packs still use mini usb to charge... Seriously they need to catch up with technology at some point down the line.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] coojoe1000:
How long did you all wait for the email? I'm 12 hours after signing up and registering and still have no email from them?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] P1NK13P13:
Thanks for this. I'm still shopping for case. Maybe this will help. Once upon a time, they were giving away these "care packages" to anyone who registered an S3. I wonder if they will be offering that for the S4:confused:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] LAYGO:
I searched high & low for indication on the Samsung site if that came with a battery or not. I would've ordered it.

Anyone 100% sure on how to get the 50% off?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Ls1ssz28:
i got my email roughly 5 minutes after signing up
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] eyecon82:
Because the mini usb transfers larger currents that micro usb. This way. The charger charges in less than a hour

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I wonder if you can get another 50 percent coupon if you already registered a sgs3?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Ls1ssz28:
I registered 2 s3 and received coupons for both, and i registered my s4 and got the coupon. So i dont think they limit it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] rockypr:
I got the email with the code, but its not working the code, did you guys have to wait a few minutes or hours for the code to be activated?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Powerbird101:
Are you positive on this... As far as I know the

Current

is based on

amperage

and the S4 has a 2 amp charger also Voltage on any USB 2.0 cable is 5±0.25V (5±0.25 volts) thus im sorry to say but what you stated makes absolutely no sense at all.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] reverepats:
Yup, I was emailed 4 different people and even called twice and there was no one to help me at all. Got to the point where I was cursing at them sort of lol. In was so frustrated man. Finally I talked to someone who jsut applied it. Got the light blue protective case for $15. I wont pursue the code now. I wasted enough time trying to sort that out
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] GiantJay:
It does come with a battery. And the charger.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] oscarthegrouch:
Ordered one of those since it seems that Sprint doesn't carry it anymore, online at least. Even Samsung online, the charger is out of stock. Looks like it's coming from Korea. The shipping details said it could arrive as late as the middle of July. Wth. Just got an email saying they aren't sending the charger that comes with it for some reason. They're sending a higher capacity aftermarket one with an adapter to work on USA outlets.

Dear Amazon customers.

My name is Kinam Choi live Korea South.

I'm a CEO of Ecomade Arena.

I temporarily stop the listing to avoid misunderstanding for items.

I'm a Korean seller live in Korea.

My items are Samsung Korea product.

So there is some differences from Samsung US.

This listing has 3 items.

#1. galaxy S4 battery charger case.

#2. galaxy S4 2600mAh battery

#3. Micro USB 700mAh travel charger US version.

The main problem is "Micro USB 700mAh travel adapter with US plug"

In Korea, Samsung Korea do not have US plug travel adapter.

Therefore, I can send "Micro USB 1200mAh High speed adapter Korea version" instead of 700mAh US version adapter.

However, I can send US plug adapter, so US buyers can use the charger immediately without any problem.

Here I attached the photo of the charger.

what you get is,

1. galaxy S4 battery charger case

2. galaxy S4 2600mAh battery

3. Micro USB 1200mAh High speed charger Korea version + US plug adapter.

The difference is only the Micro USB charger.

However, Korea 1200mAh USB charger is x 1.7 faster than US version charger.

The charger's brand name is Anymode.

*Anymode is a branch company of Samsung Electronics.

*Anymode, a prvately held company founded in Korea in 2007, has he strong affiliation with Samsung Electronics for key accessories supplier globally.

I will send your item on Friday. 31. May (by Korea time)

Estimated delivery time is 7~14 working days from the date of shipment.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Jayracer7474:
anyone else notice its good for 5 items per household/90 days from registration. ebay for 50, 125 bucks profit :good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] eyecon82:
What makes you think that someone would pay retail for something on ebay when they can go through OEM?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dreDrennon1:
I see people on there do it all of the time a lot of times they are paying triple the retail price for stuff
[One (M7) Themes and Apps] gregneal:
Hi,

Could someone please post the stock boot and down animations for me? asking because I have telstra versions :\

Thanks in advance
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Yerv Melkonian:
Basically I'm a galaxy nexus user thinking about getting a second hand s3 I love to root n flash ROMs n I love my soft keys.. Should I make the jump to the s3 n also after flashing a custom ROM like Pacman can I enable soft keys and disable the hard keys?

Thanks guys
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
Soft keys can definitely be enabled, and im pretty sure theres a way to disable the hardware keys as well
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jazz995756:
I came from the nexus and I very quickly got used to my hardware keys and disabled the backlight on them to make it look better but to answer your question yes you can but takes up some of screen space
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Yerv Melkonian:
Honestly I can't deal with the back button on the wrong side lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jazz995756:
Lol I had that issue I ended up switching my hardware button function and turning off the lights so it doesn't seem out of place
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] colonel.shepard:
coming from gnex to gs2 to gs3 i have to say gs3 is best

gnex overheated way too much but aosp ftw
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] crossen0:
I love my Galaxy S3. Of course I miss stock aosp on my Gnex but this phone is awesome!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
@OP

DId you see my post in your other thread?

Searching always helps

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1918166

YES ITS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL FORUMS. But it says that it will work with any S3, including the d2spr (AKA this phone). I've also gone through the ZIP just to make sure it's safe, and all is good. So try that. Make a backup of course.
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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ginzon:
That post is helpful...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] moesasin:
I have the T-mobile unlimited data plan with 500mb smartphone hotspot. I understand I can utilize my unlimited data with a VPN(which i have) and tethering. However, can i use the native tethering app w/ VPN beyond the 500mb smartphone hotspot?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] dtrwos:
this sounds like a good idea inside the vpn tunnel the data could potentially be shielded - but in all the other models there is a system application that detected and prevented or tracked wifi usage and attributed it to hotspot/tethering usage.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] moesasin:
Even if you were using another tethering app such as FoxFi or Trevmod?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] dtrwos:
Most of the google market apps utilize the native tethering under the hood - and dont support Jellybean on the s2/s3 - its always possible but i doubt it.

Trev Mod might work, but i think it needs root access to do so. - This is the one bit that will hold me back from using it as the primary phone too.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] KennyG123:
Questions go in Q&A

Thread moved
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] KillaHurtz:
A simple framework mod will remove the limitation set by T-Mobile. I know because we used a modded file for the Note 2 on my ROM.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] moesasin:
Great! This will allow us to use the native tethering app? I plan on doing some automation using NFC and tasker with the native hotspot feature.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] jasonftfw:
When I ran foxfi on my gs3 it basically used the native program for wifi. so thats no good.

But if you dont feel like doing any mods, just use PDANet/Foxfi and do USB tether for laptops/computers and Bluetooth vpn for all others like tables other phones etc.

Thats what I have been doing and no issues, I dont have a tether plan.
[Galaxy S 4 General] AndreiLux:
So I got my i9500 and already did some foolery with it.

Fine device, but I hate the raised lip around the screen edge. Something I definitely did not miss on the S3 and something very annoying.

Other than that small design critique:

THE ****ING PHONE ISN'T RUNNING FINAL FIRMWARE!

Basically the CPU is running on the cluster migration driver, meaning it switches all four cores from the LITTLE to the big cluster, as opposed to the core migration driver who does this in an individual core-pair manner.

You can pretty much throw all battery comparisons out of the window: it's completely unfinished and unoptimal.

I already compiled the kernel and flashed it without the cluster migration tidbit, but the phone won't boot. So yea. Current sources also useless.

Cleverly enough: you can't really distinguish between the two drivers apart from one manner: if /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/iks-cpufreq/max_eagle_count is present, you're running an IKS driver. If it's not, then you're running the sub-optimal IKCS driver.

So yea. We'll see what Samsung does about this, currently the advantages of big.LITTLE are pretty much unused.

Another nail in the coffin on how rushed and unprepared this phone has been.
[Galaxy S 4 General] ChronoReverse:
Wow, this is seriously turning out to be a fiasco.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Xdenwarrior:
This is EXACTLY why at the end I don't care for technical details about socs but was rather waiting for real world usage first. As much I wanted to agree with Andrei Lux on how intelligent BigLittle is, I sort of felt that it wont be same at the end.

Question is now: Is this possible to fix in the near future?? So that maybe buying the Exynos will be beneficial if the devs take over. I wont bet on Samsung introducing mind-blowing improvements in that department in upcoming firmwares :(
[Galaxy S 4 General] AndreiLux:
The code other driver is there in the kernel, it's just not used. No idea. It's not like we need Samsung for it: I already talked to a developer at Linaro about some incomplete switcher code that's being currently getting the green-light to be made public. But who knows how long that will take.

Whatever the case, I gather that they can't just let it be in the current state.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Xdenwarrior:
Any way to just disable cortex a15 altogether yet just to see how well cortex a7 will perform in simple texting, browsing, calling and to see what the battery life will be like on that?? (cause cortex a7 only uses like 200 something mw as opposed to 1000mw for snapdragon). I know u wont be able to game. How often does Cortex A15 hits in? cause I would suspect a much worse battery life with incomplete drivers doing the switching if its very often on. But PocketNow reports very similar battery results to snapdragon variant which I find odd :confused:
[Galaxy S 4 General] AndreiLux:
Use any app to limit the CPU frequency to 600MHz. That'll limit it to the A7 cores running to 1200MHz. Basically you can just use CPU-Spy. Everything <= 600 are A7's mapped at half frequency, everything above it are A15's at 1:1 frequency.

As for PocketNow: irrelevant. The difference is what could be instead of what is, the Snapdragon doesn't play a role in the discussion here.
[Galaxy S 4 General] yahyoh:
WOW , thats sucks :(

Samsung was too rushed and ruined it :/
[Galaxy S 4 General] Xdenwarrior:
Hey thanks, but I don't have the S4 to test it with since i'm still debating on which to get. I live in Canada and so the only version here which I can get a lot cheaper on a contract is LTE snapdragon, but I wont mind getting the Exynos since it got potential. Besides 16GB internal isn't enough for me. So that's why asking if u seen any improvements in battery when only cortex a7 ran? If a7 doesn't do much in power consumption, then no point spending 800 bucks and loosing LTE altogether...
[Galaxy S 4 General] razer1224:
[MENTION=3877923]bala_gamer[/MENTION] please see my PM its important...
[Galaxy S 4 General] AndreiLux:
Oh wow. Just got word (without further in-depth explanation) that this might actually be a hardware limitation. Coming from a reliable source.

No words...
[Galaxy S 4 General] bala_gamer:
Can you elaborate a bit more pls?
[Galaxy S 4 General] touness69:
that's not what samsung exynos advertised..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6UNODPHAHo
[Galaxy S 4 General] BoneXDA:
Is it possible that we're having a simpler Exynos 5 system technically closer to Exynis 5 Quad (plus 4 A7 cores) than a real seamless Octa-core system? It was strange reading that "Octa-core manufacturing starts in Q2" (April-June) then see Octa-core versions hitting reviewers early April, that's way too low time frame. Maybe this is a 1st-gen 5410. In any case, performance and current-state battery life beats the Snapdragon version, even if only just.
[Galaxy S 4 General] karlesg:
wtf? Well done Samsung... This is ridiculous...

WHAT THE F@CK??!!

Actually WTF is a massive understatement here....!!!

Please can you give more info about this matter whenever is possible? This is very serious...

Is it a specific hardware limitation? Something that Samsung specificly did in GS4 (I9500) ?

Because this can't be a generic exynos octa limitation. It makes no sense... Unless everything we've read from Samsung and ARM about exynos octa, are completely misleading...
[Galaxy S 4 General] msavic6:
A hardware limitation..? They advertised the functionality and to then release a device without it, is just plain stupid. Hopefully it is a just a kernel issue and can be resolved quickly.
[Galaxy S 4 General] rakeshishere:
Probably Samsung will implement it in their Note 3 device? It's a conspiracy so that people buy their next Note phone but this news is sad.
[Galaxy S 4 General] rajarshi10:
Now what is this all about? Is this a very serious issue?
[Galaxy S 4 General] rkial:
So its either all A15s or all A7s?

so would the 'octa' really be a better choice than the S600? That should be powerful enough.. and the S600 is pretty power efficient too
[Galaxy S 4 General] bala_gamer:
What I understood is its either the full cluster of a7 or a15 is used/ functional based on the load, dynamically turning on one or two cores of a15 to work along with a7 may not be possible it seems.

I may be wrong, waiting for an elaborate exp from andrei
[Galaxy S 4 General] -]Megacharge[-:
I was always under the impression this was the intention of Samsung's particular implementation of it. I thought it was common knowledge that Samsung's version worked on a 4 or 4 (A15) or (A7) basis.

Maybe he was talking about the ability to change that.
[Galaxy S 4 General] <<CodeMaster>>:
I wasn't being critical, sorry if I came off that way. I am sure there is some apps and processes that would require the A15 cores, but like I said, I doubt it would have much impact for the average user. Surely downloading/transferring files wouldn't require the A15 cores?
[Galaxy S 4 General] mw86:
Well the power efficiency of the A7's is far greater under load is all i was figuring. May take slightly longer on tasks but the temp and power draw is much less. I figure apps that latency is critical most of us have the screen on.

Team Kernelizers SPH-L710 KT747 * GT-I9500 Perseus
[Galaxy S 4 General] wholly1:
Just a thought, maybye samsung was unable to deliver enough of exynos phones on time and was forced to change or add suplier with s dragon.

Limitation of exynos may be logica l in order to provide similar user experience all dough initial project was for far more powerful exynos.

If this is the case it would not be hardware limitation ;)

Id like to think so lol
[Galaxy S 4 General] AndreiLux:
From what I've seen this might be spot on as there's a lot of CCI cache related code on the Samsung IP blocks which is dependant on whatever IKS is selected. The whole thing is a bit odd and can't really picture the development timeline of things; things are either really broken in silicon or the software is brought up on virtual development platforms.

But it really makes no sense in terms of silicon, the shipping CPU is in is fourth revision and that's supposedly the one that there mass-production. And again we had an ARM guy flailing around a working tablet with core migration with the Octa.

P.S. Yangfei?
[Galaxy S 4 General] mazdarati2:
Does this affect performance?
[Galaxy S 4 General] wholly1:
you might find this helpfull

this is in general how big little should work.

enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3cwbskxj6k
[Galaxy S 4 General] Yuriy.Samorodov:
Please delete
[Galaxy S 4 General] AndreiLux:
Managed to properly enable the IKS driver instead of the IKCS one. The system presents itself as if it would actually work and the CPUFreq layer actually shows two different concurrent frequency planes as one would theorize.

...

But it's all shenanigans, if you actually read the core status registers, the A7's never get switched on, even if the frequency they inside the A7's region. Furthermore the A7's L2 cache is always powered on but never actually does anything.

Regarding the CCI: it is powered off (Or at least unusable beyond its default state), when you try to enable or do something with it, you can't boot at all.

I now have info that this is a problem in silicon that won't be solvable, meaning neither core migration nor HMP will be possible.
[Galaxy S 4 General] mw86:
So we will never have an enhanced setup with the true potential big little with hmp or core migration would have presented. :( this is quite a shame.
[Galaxy S 4 General] karlesg:
Here we have Samsung clearly saying "Same Exynos can support all three models"

and here in page 10 we have ARM clearly saying "Same hardware supports all big.LITTLE software modes"

http://www.armtechforum.com.cn/2012...E_Technology_for_Power_and_Energy_Savings.pdf

So what's the case here? It's either my English are really really poor, or they are both lying...
[Galaxy S 4 General] antifocus:
Thanks to Andrei and all the folks for clearing things up, been watching this thread closely, and it is really pushing me towards 9505....

Samsung this is so disappointing....:(
[Galaxy S 4 General] chaitanya87:
The case is that Samsung didn't finish the job completely like it advertised about its octa. So they are fooling us.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Derpston:
How could you believe Samsung anymore at all after they promised us to deliver proper documentation for the Exynos 4 platform and still neglected it afterwards.
[Galaxy S 4 General] barondebxl:
Why do you cry? Its not the end of the world. Let see what Samsung does about it ( maybe updating the firmware or something). I ordered the I9500.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeRcKHF4bDc

A cool comparison between the 2 ( S600 vs Exynos 5 octa). From this vid, the exynos seems to have the edge.
[Galaxy S 4 General] AndreiLux:
Nobody is lying per se. That Samsung LSI slide leaked around last Christmas and is something the public shouldn't have seen. That's how it was supposed to work and how it was designed, but the chip is broken.

LSI have been mum about the workings of the chip short of a single diagram on a YouTube marketing video displaying a migration model, and the mobile division never mentioned the Octa beyond a single line in the technical spreadsheets.

The ARM slides have nothing to do with it. Their own TC2 chip works as advertised with no issues.

To the people considering 9505 or 9500: Both phones are still equal in power consumption despite all of this, and I subjectively think the 9500 is still more power efficient than the 9505 during frugal use. It's ****ty (in my view) for gaming versus what could have been, but you're still far from the chip being useless. Shìt happens.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Haluki_BR:
I am in daught of what version to buy, and i am following this thread since the begining. So can you please solve me a questiont? How it really works the exynos 5 on s4 since we know that the chip is broken and dont do what is meaning to do? :(
[Galaxy S 4 General] mw86:
You still get a cpu that has a7 cores operating at 500-1200 mhz and A15 Cores clocked from 800 - 1600mhz and only four a7 or four a15 will run at any given time. We will not get any combos of cores happening because of the way the chip was produced, it will always be quad core in function.

Like a traditional cpu it can call certain mhz to the cpu, when certain ranges are running its running a7 cores or a15. A7 cores run the 500-1200 mhz bit when the cpu displays its current state if in a7 the value is half of the true current state. Example 250mhz shown is four a7 running at 500mhz the minimum. When cpu scales to 600mhz it is running max speed the a7 can run which is 1200mhz though cpu monitors will show 600mhz. The next mhz step up is 800mhz and is then the minimum a15 speed and is displayed by monitor apps as the proper mhz 800.

Sadly the way it runs now is the way it will always run i guess. But don't get it wrong these cores are very powerful and the a7 very power efficient.
[Galaxy S 4 General] rakeshishere:
This explains why i9505 was also considered as international model along with i9500. Exynos Octa wasn't ready & they had to rush the release of the S4 to satisfy the public.

Glad I didn't waste my 700$.Here I'm waiting for next phone with true implementation of BiG Little Architecture.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Madawcisrich:
good luck for your forever waiting time.
[Galaxy S 4 General] rakeshishere:
Another 2-3 months for Note 3 to be announced so it's not forever ;)

By then if Exynos is ready, I'm sure it'll be one heck of a device :p
[Galaxy S 4 General] barondebxl:
Nothing is broken. What is wrong with you guys? If Andreilux never told you guys this you probably would never have felt any difference. Both versions are great, have decent to pretty good battery life and perform nicely for most of us. My bet is on the I9500 because if the "issue" isn't a hardware limitation, Samsung updates the firmware and it becomes the real beast its suppose to be then its a win. if not you still get a very good phone performing very well. And flash perseus kernel for f*ck sake.
[Galaxy S 4 General] AndreiLux:
Did you even read what I wrote?
[Galaxy S 4 General] Madawcisrich:
Of course! Amazing idea. you will pay even more than 700$ for a larger device with the same perfomance as the 9500. Yes note 3 has the same cpu and perform 28000 points in antutu as the i9500

. I dont see the interest. Nothing tell us that the cpu will work correctly even in the note 3. So...
[Galaxy S 4 General] barondebxl:
Sure.