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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RaVeNBoY:
Mine is suppose to be Delivered today ! waited almost 4 month for this **** (I9505 32GB) :D
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
Hahaha. Almost same here
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ravin_Dave:
I've just signed. The only thing holding me back from upgrading at the moment is the lack of a 32GB version.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] codified:
Is that a reputable site? Even if they don't ship outside of Germany, I could use a mailbox company to forward it on to me in the UK and it would still be cheaper than PC King
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
It seems legit for me, even if I don't like the website format, doesn't provide much confidence. I don't think the price difference is that big to deserve to buy it from there, ship to a forwarding company which then will ship to you. You will pay around 50 euros only the shipping fees (for two times)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Diamond 2 owner:
Any other proof that they are at the bottom?

Video which you provided shows something quite opposite for temperature sensor (it is at the top), and picture which you provided does not point out location of these specific sensors (only that inscription is on the bottom does not mean anything).
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devilh:
What do you say about that 64GB

http://www.elecsstock.com/samsung-i9500-galaxy-s4-64gb-unlocked-black-p-781.html

Real or not?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
While they accept PayPal payments I may believe it, otherwise not. The price is too low for a 64GB device (this in case it's not coming as 16gb device with a Chinese 64GB sdcard included lol)

Btw guys, there are rumors about the GT-I9506. I'm getting more pissed off with Samsung desperate moves every day. If that's very true and they release the gt-i9506 I hope there will be only one version with 16gb internal memory just like in Korea. S600 is a powerful piece of cpu and I love it, but having the S800 with the same price as S600 will piss off everyone. We should sue Samsung.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vahur_v:
[MENTION=4756320]demlasjr[/MENTION], same here. I don't get why to upgrade device with so little time. At least give device new name and don't call Galaxy S4 as a flagship.

In Korea S4 with S800 processor is with 32 GB internal memory: http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_e330s_galaxy_s4_lte_a-5542.php

Couldn't they wait a little tile to release i9505 with S800 and all versions with 16/32/64GB memory.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
On the Antutu leak appear with 11-12gb available, so it may be with 16gb. If it's only 16gb version, it's okay for me, if comes with 32GB, I'm capable to ask Samsung for a replacement if they don't want to sue them
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simonprr:
I've been reading this thread all the way through but I'm confused now which site people have ordered from and actually received the phone?

I'm after black 32GB obviously 64GB would be nice but I guess thats just a dream......lol
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shadym1lkman:
A new exynos version is coming as well so we will see ... this is obv a response to Sony and LG. Dont be upset about newer better models, it doesnt make the one you go slower... i just wish they didnt lie about the storage.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] codified:
To be fair the original S4 was released in April and the i9506 is rumoured to be releasing internationally in September. So that's a minor spec bump after five months, I don't think that's so bad. It's not like Apple when they released the iPad 4 with double the performance of the iPad 3, obsoleting the device after just a few months

You could argue that those that will buy the i9506 are the ones who should be pissed off as the S5 will be released around six months later. If we sat around waiting for the a better phone to be released we'd never take the plunge and actually buy one. I've been waiting all this time for a 32GB or 64GB S4 to be released and don't think I can hang on till September for the S800 version, my iPhone 4 seems sooo antiquated right now :mad:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr Anderson:
I ordered mine from jacob-computer.de. They delivered to the UK about a week later, payment via Paypal, about €633 including shipping.

Friendly and efficient, although they failed to email me when it was dispatched so I didn't know it had shipped until it was almost here. They responded promptly to my Google translated email enquiry, though, so no big drama.

I see they've bumped price up about €60 since, but still not bad for a 32GB GT-I9505 given that no-one in the UK stocks them still.

For someone coming from a Galaxy S2 I think the S4 is a significant improvement. However, I can understand if S3 owners might be a little unimpressed.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dukhan:
guys dont to be pessimistic about buying the s4 i9505 because of the Korean version S4 - E330S (S800 CPU).

The E330S only supports the frequency of LTE 850 / 1800 without other LTE frequencies (800,....,2600) comparing to the i9505 which supports LTE 800 / 850 / 900 / 1800 / 2100 / 2600.

Due to the above the E330S does not support the 4G in a lot of countries (for example Russia) because it is only produced for the Korean mobile companies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LTE_networks#Europe
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
I bought my S4 from pcking.de. Got it after 9 days after they lied me that they dispatched it while that didn't happened yet. However, everything is fine, the phone is fast as hell and I really love it. I don't think I will ever buy a Exynos device anymore, had pretty bad experience with my previous S3 while with this S4 Qualcomm everything rocks. There really is a huge improvement between s3 and S4. I love the fact I can forget the RAM memory. I have plenty of social networks and apps and there is over 500 mb free ram all the time.

I am pissed off with all this fragmentation because they could release all the version in the same time so people could choose. If you release later, there is no option to choose. Also there is nothing sure about the new 9506 and nothing sure when it will be released. It may be tomorrow or in September. Now depends on the price and storage capacity. We, the S4 owners should be pissed of or not. If will be out with only 16gb internal memory as the benchmarks shows, I'll not be pissed off. [MENTION=1347582]Mr Anderson[/MENTION] we are not talking about the Korean version, but the European one which may be released soon. The Korean version also sucks because is having that DVB-T antenna which is useless for us

[MENTION=1156863]shadym1lkman[/MENTION] bro, you're perfectly true here. I'm gonna update the petition tomorrow and send people links with the stores from where we bought the S4 with 32GB memory, so I will appreciate if you guys can write your experience and gives some stars from 1 to 5 reflecting the buying experience.

Also, I will tell people to keep sharing the petition, there are few signatures needed to get the petition forwarded to Samsung directives board.

I'll keep fighting until there will be a 64GB device too and 32GB worldwide available.

Meanwhile let's try to help those who are not that lucky to be able to buy the S4 32gb from Germany. If anyone need help because they can't order, I'm glad to help.

Cheers bros
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elMagnate:
signed!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shadym1lkman:
man, samsung semi's ambition is amazing ... so they got GTS working (finally enabled the HW CCI-400) ... so now theres that. but i doubt that well see them drop this in a device with 64GB ...*sigh. the longer i have to wait the more storage I want.. would 128gb/4gb be so hard at this point. samsung sells a SINGLE 128GB eMMC 4.5 chip. bah.. Canonical/Samsung Semi just gimped my desire for merely a 5410@64.. if i could get my hands on what i wanted i wouldnt care but cleary delay of gratification is a double edged sword.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RaVeNBoY:
I ordered from pc-king 9 days ago and didn't receive it yet !

but i think the delay is because i'm from Israel and the shipping takes time...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
Yeah, they are shipping it with standard shipping, not express. They dispatch late and send pretty slow, but don't worry, you will get it soon. Ask for tracking number on car they didn't give any to you.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RaVeNBoY:
actually they sent the package 2 days after i made the order, so they came out fine...

but ! like u sad its standard shipping so it takes forever to arrive, customs and everything.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simonprr:
Thanks. Is this http://www.pcking.de/eshop.php?acti...oid+Phone+-+GSM+/+UMTS&s_supplier_aid=3458063 the one?

I take it I could have it on any UK network?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
Yup, that's the one. It should work just fine in UK
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simonprr:
Cool... it doesn't say it anywhere that I can see but I assume it's completely unlocked and unbranded?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
Completely unlocked and unbranded, there are only few german apps like Mytaxi, Bild.de, one for photo albums and one for hotels, but all can be removed without root or special apps (but are automatically reinstalled with every OS upgrade and the one with the photo albums have a process which can't be terminated. I have a new upgrade, tonight I'll send you a prints creen with those apps after which will be installed again automatically
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GianPacayra:
Done ;)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gavinfabl:
What did the new upgrade provide ?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
Samsung never reveal the changelog of the upgrades. I couldn't do it by OTA and I had no time to upgrade it yesterday by KIES. I'll do it in 2 hours when I'll be in the office. I'm pretty sure that's again one of those 'stability upgrades'
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gavinfabl:
Ok thanks. Was there a problem stopping you doing ota, or was it just convience?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
I'm getting message that all the slots are occupied and I need either to try later or upgrade via KIES. It won't leave me upgrade over OTA and I hate to use KIES. In two hours I'll be in the office and I will try both way.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gavinfabl:
Clearly Samsung servers are busy. Kies ruined my computer.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
Lol. Of you install KIES you need to make its services never start with the pc. It will show and kill your computer. However, it's much better after the last year update, when they changed the design.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
This are the apps which comes like

bloatware with the german version, but which can be uninstalled. As I said, all this reappear with every OS upgrade

[MENTION=241112]gavinfabl[/MENTION] upgrade done... It's a stability upgrade, I see no difference yet, maybe a longer shutter button speed (not so cool). I'm on XXUBGMA right now.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raffigator:
Signed also. I have bought my phone 3 months ago and at that time, I was even not able to find version 32GB

Envoyé depuis mon GT-I9505 avec Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flyboy340:
i9505 from Germany

Thanks for all the info you guys are posting about the i9505 from Germany, it sounds very promising as the UK version does not look like it is going to be available to buy for some time, if ever!

Did you have to pay any custom charge or UK VAT on top of the €658?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] codified:
There's no UK customs charges on goods bought within the EU (apart from for alcohol and tobacco). VAT is charged at the seller's [German] rate of 19%, that's already taken at source
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wisheezy:
just buy a 64GB sd card..?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flyboy340:
Great news, many thanks. I will wait just another couple of weeks for the UK version before I go for the German version.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pingaa:
installing GE roms save at least a bit of space :\
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
Just stop off-topic?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simonprr:
So no other differences between this and the UK (16GB) version? Is that a GT-I9505 as well? :good:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
Well, the difference is the space and the nand speed. As I've seen til now, the 32GB nand have a better download/upload speed than the 16GB.

Anyone have seen that Samsung didn't try to optimize space on the S4? I mean:

16gb : aprox 8.8 GB space available. There are around 7 GB reserved for system

32gb: 23.64GB space available. There are a little more than 8GB missing. So, what the 32GB version have and the 16GB not?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devilh:
A little of "Samsung Magic"... :cyclops:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
Haha. Good one mate. And kinda true :D
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
Just wondering....can somebody with a 16GB device (if any) can download A1 SD Bench (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.a1dev.sdbench) make the test and public the results here please ?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gavinfabl:
I nearly got the S4 in blue, 32gb from pcking.de, but at last minute bought a S4 Zoom instead. What's interesting about this phone is its comes with 8gb with 5gb available, but it allows out of the box moving apps to the SD card. So why didn't the S4?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
Zoom is too big, it's not a phone in my eyes. Also there is no quad Qualcomm CPU. BEWARE mate, is not what you want. My S4 came with Move to SD out of the box too
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msa_6292:
I just wanted 2 know wether the speed of internal memory is faster or 64 gig nand external disk?!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
It's way faster bro. In the screenshot it's not the best result I got, because the best was 45mb/s write speed. What I want to know if the 16 gb internal is same as speed as the 32GB, but I doubt. As I know the 32GB is faster.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simonprr:
I just need to check something please - the main reason I want a 32GB rather than the 16GB is obviously because I need more space for apps/games etc and because I constantly get the "insufficient disk space" error when installing or updating apps. Tried tons of things to fix it (completely wiped several times etc) and for a while sometimes it's fine but then the problem always comes back a few days later. I think this is due to the "Data" partition on the phone because the SD-card has over 4500MB free!

So is the S4 partitioned in the same way as this? And potentially I could get the same problem?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ianjd:
This may not be the case for you, but a couple of times when I've wiped the S4 and used the Samsung account restore, it's actually set it up so that the device downloads a lot of documents from dropbox automatically, filling the internal disk quickly,and I'm wondering if this is what's happening to you. Check under Settings -> Accounts -> Cloud -> Contents Sync -> Documents. If it's set to sink, your disk will fill up with your dropbox contents - disable the sync and they'll be deleted from the device (but not dropbox).
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simonprr:
Thanks for the suggestion but not used the Samsung account restore or have any data on Dropbox etc.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
Never had such problem bro. There is something weird with your phone. Not even S3 caused me such issues
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ianjd:
I'd suggest downloading a program called DiskUsage...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage&hl=en

That'll give you a good idea of what's using up your internal disk space.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devilh:
This shop?

http://www.electronicbazaar.com.au/samsung-i9505-galaxy-s4-64gb-unlocked-4g-compatible-phone.html

It seems legit - what do you say?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
It could be. I don't like that the store have no physical address posted on their page.

Then, the name of store is pretty weird, sounds like those seeking cheap and fake things.

Third problem. They have GT-I9505 32GB, which is available nowhere yet and it wasn't been announced (not sure if will ever be). In the product description they put CPU Samsung Exynos Octa. Wtf? They have no idea what they are talking about.

No idea mate, if you can check the store and the products let us know, I'm curious about it

What do you mean, what post?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] E.Cadro:
Thread Cleaned
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simonprr:
Well quite possibly, but it is very confusing how that "Data" and "SD-Card" are separate even though SD-Card is not the external SD card! However lots of people on these forums have reported the same problems as me but maybe it's all because the Data partition is separate and only 2GB whereas on S3 and S4 it's larger. Also looks like the System partition is larger on the S3/S4.

Any chance you could download the app FreeSpace on your S4 (and if someone has a 16GB S4 to try it on) and post a screenshot so I can compare to mine? As you can see I shouldn't be having space issues because I've got 4592MB free on the "local" SD card but I guess the problem is only the 200MB free on the Data partition.

Thanks, I have got that app but because my Data partition is only 2GB I literally can't find anything to remove!

Perhaps, dare I say it, I'd be fine with a 16GB S4 because the Data and SD-card partitions are now combined? If i'm understanding this correctly! :confused:

Not sure what to do now :confused:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simonprr:
Here's a screenshot of diskinfo on my S2 to compare... for some reason my local SD card partition (that has 4592mb free) doesn't even show up?!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
There is no doubt a positioning issue on your phone. The DATA partition should take the whole empty space of SD Card. It's the memory with the cache, system and the rest of position and the unallocated space it's for data, but in your case the phone is bad partitioned. You can fix it repartitioning it, I don't know if with flashing works, but I recommend you to go and replace it if you can or ask Samsung to fix it.

This is on my S4. If you want, u can take a screenshot on my S3, it's 16gb. Just let me know, but I'm 100% sure it's same like my S4. never had such problems.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
Sorry for the double post, but for some reason Tapatalk won't leave me attach the screenshot in my previous post
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simonprr:
Thanks for checking this and the screenshot. :good: I guess something went wrong or I didn't do something right when I updated my S2 several times manually. Although the instructions always said not to tick the re-partition box, so I didn't. Oh well. Would be interesting to see if your S3 is the same?

I take it that on a 16GB S4 the app would show a DATA and SD-CARD partitions as the same size and same partition essentially but with only about 8GB capacity? :confused:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
S3:

http://i.imgur.com/K2x7ILC.png
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simonprr:
Thanks! Well that is interesting. Oh well think I'm going to go for the S4 32GB like you from pcking.de :good: apart from the extra space it's also gonna be faster and have 4G possibility whenever it's actually rolled out here more widespread :silly:

Has anyone from the UK bought it from pcking?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
Welcome mate. You for sure would not be disappointed ;)

There was 1-2 guys asking about pcking but not sure if they ordered the S4 yet. It should be no problem.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simonprr:
Cool cheers for all your help. We've already discussed that it should work in the UK all networks and its completely unbranded and unlocked so that's ok. Will it also work on all 4G networks in the UK when they are actually released?

I need a micro sim too don't I?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
Yes, it will work. And yes, you will need micro sim too. Ask your career for a replacement or just cut your actual card. Replacement is better. New sim = best performance ;)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simonprr:
Will do. Will a new SIM really make a difference in performance?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
Not really, but few years ago I had a SIM for over 5 years and I started complaining for bad signal and the carrier changed my SIM and the issue was gone. So, depends on how old is your SIM.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simonprr:
Ahh yeah good point. My sim is a few years old I think... actually could be older than that so worth changing. I might be changing network anyway.

I'm gonna order it this weekend then the waiting game begins!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simonprr:
Just found that it's now on Amazon marketplace - http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00CXN2R5I from a Belgium seller so shouldn't take long from there. Thats a recent addition, not found it there before! :cyclops:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
I would go for a legit store instead mate. They gives you warranty and the shipping time can be shorter
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FireStorm33:
Amazon UK Marketplace

Simonprr, don't order from that Belgian Amazon marketplace seller, it is a mistake (apparently by Amazon) and is actually the 16GB version. I had to return the phone and await a refund. :crying:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simonprr:
Ah thanks for the heads up!

There is 2 belgium sellers on that now though. Did you buy it from "belgium gsm" or "achatpc" ?

i think i saw that the other seller, portagadget's is singapore :(

Possibly achatpc is the right thing because cost is signficantly higher but probably not worth the risk.... back to pcking.de then i suppose :eek:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
Good choice mate.

That's why I love this thread, helped us a lot. A troll said few days ago that this thread should be closed because it's useless. All he got was his useless post deleted :D
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FireStorm33:
Ok, I didn't realise. It was Belgium-GSM I ordered from, they obviously don't check what Amazon put up or get it corrected in a hurry! :-/

---------- Post added at 10:15 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:05 PM ----------

I think I'll email pcking and ask what their delivery options are to the UK as other german sellers (eg cyberport) are only delivering to the UK for Business customers with VAT numbers. I saw others discussing mailbox forwarding companies but I haven't looked in to this

if

pcking also only deliver to UK businesses... Hopefully they deliver to households also. Will update if I get a reply.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
So bad they don't ship to UK. I guess it's because of pounds and not euro. Pcking is shipping in UK as I know.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vahur_v:
I ordered my i9505 32GB black from Cyberport.de on 24th July and received it on 31th July (that's seven days delivery). They shipped it via UPS Standard.