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[One (M7) General] jaysun3000:
Im picking up 4g LTE this morning 30 minutes south of Jacksonville FL on Tmo for the first time since I've had the phone, last night I updated to the latest firmware....I'm rooted, s off l, super cid and stock.
[One (M7) General] jaysun3000:
Delete
[One (M7) General] klauspabst:
That's in Cumming, Georgia
[One (M7) General] dude2k5:
Sac LTE, only had 1-2 bars. 4G/hspa will be around 8-11mbps.
[One (M7) General] kcolatay:
Minneapolis/Saint Paul Area
[One (M7) General] mmduluth:
Duluth, Ga
[One (M7) General] xcesivemastub8ah:
Here in dfw I've averaged around 25 down 15up with ping around 25. In the middle of the day on my dev edition. Not bad for $33 a month tax included. .
[One (M7) General] neillmchi:
Finally got on LTE here in Chicago. Not impressed so far compared to HSPA+, but it's a start.
[One (M7) General] best1923:
Mesquite ,Texas
[One (M7) General] plopez12:
wow, where are you located?
[One (M7) General] neillmchi:
OK, so getting more bars helped :)
[One (M7) General] rudyy:
Where I live in Sacramento - off El Camino Avenue - has the slowest speeds - Edge - on the chart, but there are 3G, HSPA, and LTE not far away. Most of the higher readings on the chart are LTA.
[One (M7) General] barondebxl:
You can't be serious right?????
[One (M7) General] dirtyhamster73:
Can't.stop.laughing.
[One (M7) General] johnnyarks:
from Bklyn NY

test 1: 12.38Mb/10Mb 2bars

test 2: 11.32Mb/2.12Mb 3bars

test 3: 9.30Mb/10.39Mb 3bars

Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY.

Doesn't surprise me, T-Mobile is very popular in my neighborhood. Everyone's probably pulling from the same tower.

I get in the low 20 around lower Manhattan/Williamsburg area.
[One (M7) General] PcFish:
I was just in South Philly this past weekend, I was getting 30.76 down 11.52 up. Loved it. Most bars I've ever gotten on LTE as well. (4)
[One (M7) General] rudyy:
Plenty of LTE along Auburn Boulevard between Watt Avenue and Fulton Avenue in Sacramento. Here's the reading at Haggin Oaks golf course, which is at the end of Fulton.
[One (M7) General] plopez12:


Yes, obviously.
[General Accessories] Panja:
I just recieved my iSound from the company Seidio.

Delivery didn't go as it supposed to be...

The site says: 1 -2 weeks delivery and it took them almost 4 week to get the package at my place...

This morning I went to work and tried the gadget.

After fiddeling with the fm frequenties and now finally found a good fm

frequentie and it works perfectly!! Clear sound!

Only when you have GSM enabled (Flight mode off) the phone sometimes searches for the network and than you get that irritating beep sound in the radio.

I can recommend this gadget :-)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] DaYiM:
Hello,

I have Galaxy S3 running 4.1.1, i have perviously

rooted it. After that i done a Factory Rest to the Device,

then tried to UpDate it to the latest Version!

But it always tells me that this device is modified!

What i want is to Completely REMOVE the Root,

then UPDATE it to the latest version? Please HELP!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] topherk:
As long as you have a custom recovery (either CWM or TWRP), you will not be able to update. You could go back to 100% stock unrooted and then update, but this is not necessary and you'll be doing a lot more steps. More steps means more chances to mess something up.

Good news is that you can just install the stock Rom. Freeza always updates

his thread

with the most recent Stock Rooted Rom. A lot of times he comes out with it even before I get the OTA from Sprint. All you have to do is flash it in TWRP or CWM. In case you're not familiar with the procedure for doing this, please see

this linked post

.

Finally, OTAs are fairly common, so check out

CNexus' thread on OTAs

.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] 4_Weasel:
If you want to go back to stock completely, you will need to odin the tar file and the latest triangle away. This will set your binary and get you back to normal and then odin the stock tar. This will put you back to completely stock with a stick recovery. You should be able to update from there. There are several links to the info you need.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] topherk:
They don't necessarily have to use Odin and Triangle Away.

Here is a thread

for a recovery-flashable zip which will reset their counter and restore them back to unrooted stock.

That being said, if the only reason they want to go back to stock is to take the update, it's entirely unnecessary. Like I said before, the more steps they have to take, the more chances they have to mess something up (especially when it comes to Odin and Download mode, in my opinion). If they want to return to stock unrooted for another reason, the easiest way is to use the flashable zip.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] DaYiM:
Thanks alot for all of your help
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unregistered_:
Hello guys.

I live in Edmonton, AB, Canada and I honestly am not too worried about LTE.

I simply want the S4 with the better audio quality. I'm a head-fi'er!

Was wondering if anyone has compared the 9500 and the 9505 for audio quality? I'd get the phone purely based on that...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Obagleyfreer:
the i9500 has the superior Wolfson DAC.

If it's just audio quality you're after get the i9500 :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gio_b:
ie ear

me too interest to audio in ear ....so:do we have mod for improve the i9500 sound ,i was told it has poor audio ....?

htc one:is better any way for in ear sound ?

tks gio.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m0nz:
The best mod is currently PureX Audio which isn't yet available for the 9500, but will be for the 9505 because its Qualcomm.

The HTC has the Qualcomm DAC and is actually pretty impressive. In ear quality is very similar to Wolfson, with the Wolfson having an ever so slight lead. But with the PureX mod, the HTC wins hands down.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soulreaver1:
Actually, according the gsmarena SQ tests both i9500 and i9505 are currently the best sounding smartphones ever: http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s4_i9500_vs_i9505-review-930p5.php . I9505 is even slightly better than i9500.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] *Emix*:
It's very similar. Snapdragon is little better.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] otacon888:
I have both versions and I find the I9500 a bit better.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] *Emix*:
Can you explain why? What's the difference?

Because on gsmarena they say different thing and that ear can't really "hear" difference.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] @rbiter:
I don't think you can go wrong with either. Considering the measurements, db and the issues both phones have with low impedance headphones I would get the i9505 for the lte. The performance is virtually identical in all aspects of the phone, minus the i9500 getting left behind in lte speedtests. Lol. Also, you may have an opportunity to flash pure aosp if your bootloader is unlocked on the i9505. I9500 loses there too.

Sent from my GT-N7100
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] obladi63:
I have checked it if anyone is interested in it and can read my poor English. Sorry for that in advance.

Headphone was an AKG K-70. It is an old type entry level hi-fi headphone and not the best but quite enough to check the sound quality of smartphones. I can tell that it is much better than the delivered one in factory pack. Also I did not use any tone manipulation. Everything was flat.

Basically I was listening such music which contains acoustic instruments and lead vocals. The difference is recognizable. First of all I can tell that none of these phones has high-end sound quality but i9500 has better sound definitely. Listening music is enjoyable on it. You can forget that you are hearing a machine and can enjoy the music itself. The stereo sound picture is also wide and correct.

This is what I cannot tell about i9505. The balance of low and high frequency is very similar to i9500 but it has much narrow stereo room and lead singers have a lisp suddenly. Problem is getting worse as number of instrument is increased in the music. So basically let it enough.

I have not checked them with full artificial music. The real sound quality doesn’t matter in that case only the tone balance which is quite similar on both phones but I won't be able to live with sound of i9505 surly because of the hissing voice.

I hope it helps.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] renosj:
Did you try PureX mod?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] obladi63:
No, I didn't. I don't find expression PureX in any menu point. Please help what you mean by this.

I used built in Music Player and turned off every stupid function which can modify the sound picture anyway. These are not capable to fix the problems. On the contrary these hide the problem. Like strawberry with sugar. It is sweet but...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] renosj:
With this mod should 9505 beat 9500 in audio quality.What about hissing in 9505, how often and strong is it when listen music? Did you try last stock firmware (Germany)? Because this firmware removes cracking sounds when use headphone with low independence on higher volume. And why do you have both versions (9505 and 9500), which one would you prefer (apart from sound quality)?

http://skynet-machine.appspot.com/xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2211163
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] obladi63:
Well I checked the link. It is interesting but sorry I was not able to read through all 33 pages. Is there anybody who has experience with it on Samsung. Perhaps you? Can it be applied on the same way? I don't know when I will be able to try it but I will. On the other hand reading through the feature list I have doubt that it can help much. I think so that mostly analog part is responsible for the difference. Prepressing of the digital signal means placebo effect rather than significant improvement at this quality level. The difference was much more than we can expect from the pureX features. Nevertheless it should be checked.

So. Not hissing was the only issue but it was the most disturbing for me at least. It happens always if "sss" comes in the song. Sing, think, etc. It sounds like singer would have speech defective. Of course this problem affects other part of the music but it is most disturbing in the vocal.

The impedance of mentioned AKG is 100 Ohm which should be more than enough for high impedance headphone output as well.

Version i9500: XXUBMEA

Version i9505: XXUBMDM

I don't prefer any of these too. Both are very same. I am not involved in games but I use internet, photo, video, navigation and music mostly. So I need good sound and LTE too. I would change my 9500 to 9505 if sound would be comparable. Since my friend bought a 9505 few days ago I could compare them.

Otherwise I am very satisfied with 9500. Reading the news earlier I expected better sound quality but finally I am OK with it. This is the only place where I am still listening CD quality.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] renosj:
Thank you very much, I have to decide which version I buy, its hell for me:). There is a link where comparing 9505vs9500 audio quality, its interesting that they highlight 9505 over 9500 a little bit. http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s4_i9500_vs_i9505-review-930p5.php

I dont need LTE, i preferer better audio/camera. Iam afraid of overheating 9500, a lot of people complain for that. When browsing/watching movies, its ok? I know, I can not offer you anything else than thanks, but could you please compare 9505 vs 9500 camera quality(just photos)? Make few shots with sky a post them here in full-res, so I can compare it. In the previous version of FW was better 9500 because of more small details in picture and less noise in the sky. If possible, recommend to your friend update to newer FW, because it solves a lot of bugs (audio and camera as well). new FW for 9505 http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2312329
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] obladi64:
I understand you. I was and am still in same boat. Not easy to choose.

I read the link but these data is so few. The only significant difference is the stereo crosstalk on that page. Believe me it can be even 40 or 30 and stereo picture still can be much better than the others. This info is good for nothing. However since it is less with 18 dB it means that analog electric circuit is really different in the two equipments and what I heard is really because of it basically.

Also you can read about the camera on that side. I agree with the tester that differences is due to software rather than hardware. Samsung (not only) does too many artificial post-process on their pictures which makes the comparison pointless more or less. I'll try to shot some pictures later but I don't know when we will be on the same version otherwise it really does not make sense. If phones could make raw picture ... may be. And don't forget that software updates come from time to time. If photo is so important to you, you should choose Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom. Perhaps.

http://www.sammobile.com/2013/06/13/samsung-galaxy-s4-zoom-official-lifestyle-demo-video/

but you know well that really good picture can be shot only by using a good and big enough lens.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] obladi64:
After all I decided to buy 9500. 1) It is Samsung. 2) May be better photo/video as I read it. 3) Better sound quality which is proved now. And this third point is important to me. What is the strange for me is that after discussion had started on the net about the two DAC I did not read a single line from Samsung in which they really prove that both are same good.

LTE? Well it is sounds good but what is the real benefit in it? May be the second hand i9505s will be more expensive with 10% two years later. But how much will this 10% be?

Overheating. I haven't had such bad experience. A bit lukewarm sometimes but SII was really warm comparing to this. But I have to tell you that I don't use games and did make only short videos max 10 min. And my FW was updated immediately after buying so I didn't have experience with problematic version. Also keep in mind that not only Samsung "overheats".

Further there is another thing. What do you intend to do? Do you want to experiment with different unofficial FWs or use and enjoy your equipment? I am already over this period and shortly I can tell that all these unofficial versions always can do one or two things better while other three or four are worse or missing. And updates are never ending. My life was to wait for when the next fix comes and then what was good earlier is wrong in recent update sometimes. No, I have had enough. I have learnt that the best and most stable version is always the factory. This is my opinion of course. It does not mean that I don't try other launchers or such but no more other FW.

So if sound quality is important to you and you listen a lot of music with acoustic instruments I wouldn't dare to recommend i9505 at all. I am sure that you and everybody will be disappointed. Although this problem is so unpleasant that may be I have to check an other piece whether it is just an individual problem or general. There is 1% chance for individual. :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imlgl:
Music is important to me and I still chose the I9505. I have IEM's so it brings the best from the audio chip. The sound is brilliant. With power amp I brought out as much as I could. Brilliant bass and mids. I can't see how the 500 would be better as the sound is so rich and perfect
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] obladi64:
Power amp always modifies the content even in flat mode too so it is tipicaly not good for test anything. Of course if you are satisfied with your 505 is cool. Enjoy it! The difference is not or not so recognizable on pure electronic music or if you modify the sound balance anyway. Aslo I have to tell that I haven''t compared the phones with factory headphone. I didn't expect that any difference can be recognizable with that. It is too low quality for this purpose.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andymihail:
It seem that Samsung brought a lot of frustration among their top clients, those of us who are buying their newest flagship every year or two.

They should have made a single version of S4, but with all the differences between i9505 and i9500, now only if you own them both you can declare to be somehow pleased.

Regarding the audio, I'm on i9505 and the music is not bad at all. If the others on i9500 have a different experience, perhaps better than mine, while they have their headphones while traveling with the subway, that does not bother me in any way, since I enjoy my music on my device just as well.

Then again, it is a phone. For performance, in any area, one should buy a dedicated device. It is just the way it is and will be.

Just to outline once again, I simply love my i9505 and I enjoy the music I stored on the 64 GB Samsung uhs-I card.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] obladi64:
My aim was not to argue about which is the best. I wanted to help those who doesn't have choice to hear both. I would change my phone if I have got reverse result. For me no matter 505 or 500. I am over that mine is the best.

I wrote the test circumtenses and music type enough specificly I think so. If it helps to anybody it has been worth it. If you have got different result with same or similar circumtense, share it here, but just because owning 505 please don't say that it sounds better. Apart form this you can be satisfied with 505. But only this fact would not help me to choose.

I did not say that buy 500 in any case. I defined when it is worth it. If you listen electric music or less vocal or use agressive tone modification and such it doesn't matter what you choose. Furthermore I can say that if you use PowerAmp it also does not matter even if you swear to PowerAmp.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] renosj:
Really apreciate your opinion,it helps a lot!I dont like when people say "if you want good audio/camera buy dedicated device,this is only the phone...". No!You spend a lot of money for phone,you should get the most of it,just how is in the market possible.Even small advantage over the other phones will pay off.So its imporatant to properly solve every small detail....I decided to buy 9500, because of better photos/audio/price(30eur less).Now I have SG2, I want uprade in every aspect.I listen classic to rock music,use only phone camera,watching movies.Audio-use Neutron player,I recommend it!Photo-I know,9500 may be better just because of FW,but who can garantie that 9505 will get better in time?Galaxy zoom is big ugly monster with small display.I have to agree,stock ROM suits me at best way,just root it and remove bloatware,I have the same reasons for it as you, you described it very well:).
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] obladi64:
I am happy if I could help independently what you choose finally.

I agree but all I wanted to say with it that we have to be aware of the limits and lens is huge limit. Anyway picture and video are much much better than of SII but not professional.

If classic is on your list it is not question anymore what you have to choose.

I tried the 3 day evaluation of Neutron. (Not on S4 yet) I have got good impression but I was very busy during that 3 days to check it thoroughly. I plan to do it later. It has few features which not just hide the problems but really can enhance the quality. Not dramaticly but sensitive ears can hear it mostly on classic.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gio_b:
hi, i can i improve in ear sound of my i9500 ? (stock s3 is much better isnt'it ?)

can you suggest me mod:rom and or kernel to improve ? which one...? a lot of rom kernel ,and i'm winzoz based.....rippped cd ogg 128..What do you think of the relationship between space and quality ,in this case ?

P.S:head phones:image x10 klipsch image 10 ;50hom 1kz

tks gio
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] obladi64:
Hi, I think that if we have a given hardware the sound quality can be tuned only slightly. Very slightly. Maybe S4 has enough good sound quality therefore I will check few things in the future. For instance Neutron. But I am sure that I won't change factory rom just because audio. :) May be the kernel. If it was very promising. :) Since I listen many acoustic instrument I expect as much natural sound as possible therefore tone equalizer 3D etc. does not mean lot to me. After all this is when we really can talk about sound quality isn't it?

I think space vs quality. I like to pamper my ears. Usually I use 320kbps mp3 and sometimes flac on phone. Rather I delete from my SD than compress.

S3. Sorry I don't have experience with that. :(
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gio_b:
i try ogg 128 (to save space vbr anyway), and it seems like mp3 vbr "method which should work better vs space" is about 32 vs 64...same quality...for a phone...??? i can't hear the difference till now.

so for you ,for an improvement ,is better to look to the kernel vs room :can you explain me how ?

now the bets seems to bw KErnel Perseus and WanamLite Rom ;but i'm not yet able to flah ,si i'll try Neutron.

let me know for a audio kernel :i9500 of course...

tks gio.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] obladi64:
Gio, I have to disappoint you. The time is more expensive for me than memory what I win by using stronger compression. Therefore I buy a bit memory rather. I checked such things 15 years ago but I listen 24 bit lossless nowadays if I can do.

Regarding kernel or rom you can read my opinion earlier. Hardware setting can promise tiny (very tiny) advantage but factory settings is already close to the best most likely so I don't spend my time with. I enjoy some music instead and I suggest same to everyone. :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iwasblown:
Does the i9505 have the same slums dac as the tmobile s4?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gio_b:
I completely agree with you, but if my library of ripped CD weighs 94 giga: have you different tips?

And I suggest same to everyone to try different kernel ,if able.

Try to compare flac (ripped C.D. 16:44,1) to m3 vbr, to , 128 ogg.(vbr any way) stay tuned.

tks gio.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spl4tt:
OK Guys, wait.

How could it be that the same SoC in the HTC One gets worse audio output?

Both have the Snapdragon 600 SoC.

That would mean the i9505 has another audiochip than the HTC One or any other Snapdragon 600 device Oo

Just to say: The test results of both, the i9505 and the i9500 are THAT EXTREMELY GOOD that you won't feel any difference, even with some uber custom inears.

They're even the best sound output results i saw in a phone until now.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andymihail:
I can only assume that i9505 has a Yamaha audiochip if is not the same Wolfson as of the i9500. Opinions?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spl4tt:
That would mean this yamaha chip is much better than the wolfson chips samsung used until now..
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] @rbiter:
It is qualcomm's own DSP. Sounds great.

Sent from my GT-N7100
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] obladi64:
Could you please share your test details with us. How did you compare the both phones? What was

the headphone (or else)

FW

Kernel

what kind of music you was listening

same on both at all?

Could you listen both phone in the same time or shifted by days perhaps.

etc.

otherwise we can consider it as your über custom opinion only. Thanks.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andymihail:
Perhaps a bit off topic: can anyone recommend me a good pair of headphones for i9505, as I use the stock ones right now?