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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noideaforusername:
I really don't see what's the problem? Everyone knew the S800 is coming in July/August.

You thought that Samsung want to be left behind?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BoneXDA:
[MENTION=3877923]bala_gamer[/MENTION] [MENTION=4167023]AndreiLux[/MENTION] is it theoretically possible for the next Exynos 5 chipset to sport the Adreno 330GPU?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andymihail:
I don't think we can be sure that this is going to be released, I mean world wide. Then again, what is Samsung going to do? Announce this new device in September, release it in October, to what...? Release S5 in April 2014?

That would make a 6 month new release cycle...

It is really fast and the software seems to be far behind. My old S2 is still able to run any app or game from Google play.

I have the S4, my next phone will probably be S6. Question is: how will real life experience be different from one to another? I guess will be very hard to notice and only the benchmarks will make a difference.

S4 users, enjoy your great devices and don't worry about the fast pace of technology. You're still on top.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ViRuS3k:
After just buying a S4 and i have to sell it already WTF lol
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nightf0x_007:
People get ready for the new i9507 with exynos 5420 :Djoke
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mubeenshahid:
so should i wait for i9506?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bala_gamer:
im expecting a mali 6XX GPU which will be much better than adreno 330, so now its officially confirmed that 9500 is the one and only lucky product on this earth to pack a semi cooked silicon . The leaked screenshot of note3 running a 1.9ghz processor matches with the tidbits about 5420.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BoneXDA:
Will the 6xx be really that good - and efficient? The Adreno 330 looks pretty darn good based on the AnandTech article.

Yeah, the 1.9GHz Note III score definitely points to the next Exynos, hopefully it will have proper core management and they'll deal with the heat issue. How big a battery do you expect for the Note III?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] negrobembon:
normally i would think this is a joke, but now i think is possible
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndreiLux:
Worthless speculation. We don't know the exact Mali configuration on the 5420 except its clocks, it can be either under or over the 330 in terms of performance. And no, Adreno isn't up for licensing for third-party manufacturers.

The 5420 works well. Heat will be a configuration problem, the S800 is also massively throttled due to thermal constraints.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nightf0x_007:
Anything is expected from this company
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bala_gamer:
just went to gfxbenchmark site to gather some data and was surprised to GT9507 and GT 9508 variants of S4, whether they are career based version or another new version is unknown. coming to the point i have no idea about the performance the mali T628 can produce, but on comparing some set of devices with the year old mali T604 (used in nexus 10 @ 2560 *1600 resolution) we can clearly expect some major performance improvement. mali t628 has double the amount of shader cores present in t604, so it should definitely be a killer product regardless of the comparison.

here are the comparison results on gfx site

http://gfxbench.com/compare.jsp?D1=Samsung+GT-I9500+Galaxy+S4&D2=Apple+iPhone+5&D3=Apple+iPhone+4S&D4=Google+Nexus+10&D5=Samsung+GT-I9507&D6=Samsung+GT-I9508+Galaxy+S4&D7=Samsung+GT-I9505+Galaxy+S4&cols=7

some details on malit t628

http://www.arm.com/products/multimedia/mali-graphics-plus-gpu-compute/mali-t628.php

---------- Post added at 08:40 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:39 AM ----------

wow, andrei looks like you have some credible news about 5420, mind sharing it pls? :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jmldsilva:
Hello my opinion about s800. I trade my s3 I.9300 for s4 i9505 and some of the problems are still remaining... lagssss. In benchmarks the s600 doubles the exynos 4412.. in real world use I don't see none of that. Sure it is a little fast... but not that fast... the problem of i9300 was 1gb ram... nothing more.. and the s800 only the gpu is considerably faster. The cpu and ram are normally faster due to clock.(antutu)... don.t stress because the problems are not going to be solved with this s800. The s600 is already aheaddd from software demands... enjoy your phones because benchmarks are benchmarks..

Regards
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andymihail:
We only have a leaked antutu benchmark.

Look at the results and run a similar benchmark on your phone.

The difference is really not that big. And...think about all the things you already did with your phone, photos, custom roms, all the fun you had with your device. Would have worth waiting for something which is only a rumor for now? And also... The price might be a bit higher...

Our phones are still top of the line.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boterkaaseneieren:
With 4.2.2 haha samsung is slow
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jmldsilva:
They are slow? Where? Some random lags.. but the problem is not the hardware... is software....
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BoneXDA:
Thx guys! I9507, I9508, interesting.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nightf0x_007:
Leaked benchmarks shows that i9506 scored 27+ which is the same as i9500 .... Even if i9500 is overclocked it will score more isnt it ?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ellumination:
But then again the 9505 will remain better for a long while just because of the good rom support. Then again a new model might pull away developers...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beefheart:
My opinion hasn't changed since the last time I posted about this. My phone hasn't suddenly gotten slower and why should I give a s**t about extra speed that will only be noticeable in a benchmark app? You won't find a single application or game that will run noticeably faster on a S800 than it would run on a S600 so why should I care? Technology moves on, deal with it.

Nothing to see here.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muamers:
GSMarena antutu test screenshots
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] negrobembon:
WHAT? no way, my stock octa s4 gets over 29000 fully stock, there must be something wrong with antutu cause a snapdragon 800 clocked that high should be stronger than that
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheMrcool212:
Benchmark scores is not the way to measure the performance, and several people says that it's fake. So we need to test with the phone itself.

Sent from my Galaxy S4 i9500
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androidjel:
Are you kidding me?

I have the HTC one and have such problems.

Build quality just sucks.

Screen sucks because there is a scratsh in it now I had the optimus black with no gorrila glass with no scratches :/ .

Sometimes I send a sms and I send 1 sms.

But the person I sms to said he had it 2 or 3 times .

Input of charging sucks almost broken :/ .

Idunno why but I never lat him fall or anything else.

And already 2 times he didnot charge :/ .

So if I'm lucky I'm gonna change it to a sgs4.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mithrandir007:
Why do so many people feel cheated by this?

You still have the same device you wanted to buy before, it won't be any worse now that a new model is out.

It's not like it's a S5 with new features that you can't get, your S4 will still get updates.

My i9500 works perfectly, great performance, no lags, insane battery life, and it still packs the same features as the newer models.

What difference would it make if I bought the i9506? most likely none at all (and we don't even know if the camera sensor is a Exmor RS and if the sound chip is Wolfson, so the i9500 might still be better in those areas).

All it would change is probably a higher Antutu score, which won't change my life.

It's nice that I got almost 30k on my device, but I couldn't care less if I had 20k if it ran the same way in real use.

I ran Antutu maybe 3 or 4 times since I bought it, just by curiosity.

I would actually be more annoyed if it was a S5 with whole new features I can't get and a new and improved design but only because I would then be tempted to buy it.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndreiLux:
It gets that score for the same reason your Octa will jump to 31k if you put it in a freezer. All these new chips have thermal constraints on them, they're not meant to be used in phones otherwise.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ipsuvedi:
Now Bad/Good news is confirmed....at least for European region

If you are planning to buy s4 ...you must read it....if you already bought s4 ...please sorry ...then I can't say

The Monster Of Monsters ....Galaxy s4 9506 with SD 800 is conning soon :eek:

www.sammobile.com/2013/07/19/gt-i95...sammobiles-advice-wait-or-skip-the-galaxy-s4/
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dopehatter:
This makes me kinda mad... would definedly bought that version of the s4 if i wouldn't bought 9505 already... >. <

Sent from my S4
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rtoh:
Dun get excited over new S4 Variants.. The real big thing will be in S5, accordingly to the executive from Sammy. I had spoken to him, (mobile division head) face to face in a dinner.. As for the date, count down to around 10-11 months to go.. We might see a flexible, hardly breakable screen..
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avsquare:
To me, unless you guys hate the size of the Galaxy Note series, I'd say go for the Note 3 which is what I'm going to do. :laugh:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slig:
@up

... and about two weeks after you buy N3 Samsung will announce N3 Snapdragon 999 with lte 7.0. I'm really pissed off. If Sammy will keep this policy I'm getting divorce with S series.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mackzzor:
And i just bought my I9505 two days ago >.<

Skickat från min Nexus 7 via Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] karandevilocs:
i was thinking the same way should i exchange it for i9505 (i9506 will not be available in my country for a while believe me) or should i stick with my i9500 cause i think it literally doesn't have any rom support at ALL! i'm still waiting for triangle away and Paranoid Android roms ( and i start to think that it won't be released )

so and advantage or disadvantage of i9505 compare to i9500 ?! i mean in DEV like thing not just specs like i heard that i9500 has fully compatible with latest microsd cards but others don't! and blah blah blah

THANKS!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Glotttis:
you sure did :cyclops:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noideaforusername:
If you remember, most of the leaks for the S3 was for the I9300 variant and the leaks came from Israel. Since I9500 is the official device here in Israel, it shouldn't be any different so we will get the leaks first :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] karandevilocs:
so you're suggesting me to stick with i9500 right?! you are the developer here i'm counting on your words!:D:victory:

and i researched i a little bit and i thinks exchanging i9500 for i9505 is kinda pricy so yeah enjoy this and wait for an upgrade ! :cowboy:

:cyclops:+ i have a little off-topic question as you're here is there gonna be any triangle away support for i9500 at any time soon or not?!

and can i rest flash counter via flashing STOCK ODIN ROMS!?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Davies_90:
I also today have just just got my s3 upgraded to i9505.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] titus1:
Let's just hope it'll support the 9500 in the long run and not to mention Mobile Odin too.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mithrandir007:
You're better off keeping your i9500, the only disadvantages being the lack of lte and AOSP roms (though it appears we might have those very soon, but Cm 10.2 is booting now).

The i9500 is better than the i9505 in some ways too : better camera, better battery life, better sound chip (though not noticeable yet I think), slightly faster cpu/gpu.

So unless you hate Touchwiz, there no reason to switch ;)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr.r9:
From what I read on Anadtech the snapdragon 800 is a tablet SoC because it will e thermally retrained in a mobile enclosure so I kinda envision overheating problems especially considering the amoled screen.

My advice is to wait a while for reviews and real life problem/manufuacturing defects to surface.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Matad1974:
New Member S4

Purchased from 10 days this fantastic device ... Already Rootato and mounted Rom BluMak 2000 MGA v.2.1 perfect : Laugh:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] talhamid:
I got a 9505 after exchanging it with 9500. First of all 9505 is faster and more stable with better battery life. I was getting at least one random reboot per day with i9500.Secondly you can get all sorts of roms and even Google edition software on it ery easily. You can't go wrong.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andymihail:
You meant i9505 after "first of all"?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] talhamid:
Of course. Thanks for correction
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mithrandir007:
Just wondering, what kind of battery life are you getting now? What about your previous s4?

About the stability, my i9500 has not crashed once, and never got any FC, except when I tested undervolted cpu/gpu values.

Also, is your i9505 really faster on Touchwiz roms, or are you talking about the Google edition/AOSP roms? Because it's supposed to be the other way around, at least on Touchwiz.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] talhamid:
I had i9500 for several days without root and completely stock. It crashed and hanged at least twice a day. It got achingly slow on just 3 dyad of usage. Also battery life was 10 hours tops with 2 hours of screen time.

When I got the i9505 I got it with an express view of flashing Google Edition Rom. Anyway in the few hours that it spent as stock, I noticed it was far faster and esp the camera loaded instantly unlike the 5 seconds or so it took for the i9500; also it didn't take the first picture blurred. Make note that I am talking about both phones with full suite of 150 or so apps. Specifically i9500 went into a terminal crash when I changed camera settings in Real Racing 3; no such thing happened in i9505.

Then I flashed Jamal s GE rom and I am pleased to say that in all the phones I have used this has to be the fastest. All the sensors are working perfectly and without the TW the phone flies. I doubt I am ever going back. It's like having a Nexus 5 with card slot.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mithrandir007:
Thanks for the details.

I think you had a defective phone, I got none of the problems you mentioned.

I use a custom Touchwiz rom now but the problems weren't there before either.

It's very fast, without lags, and without underclocking or undervolting, I usually get around 6 hours screen time over a period of 48 hours. That includes Web browsing, mails, xda app, some navigation using Sygic, using some small apps and taking pictures. All that with 3g data and wifi enabled, bluetooth disabled.

When I play heavy games, the battery won't last that long, of course.

The camera app launches very fast, although I did have some delay on a previous rom.

Pictures taken with the camera are insanely good, very few blurry pics (and none when in good light conditions).

Real Racing 3 works perfectly too, though it eats through my battery a bit too fast for my taste ;) I don't do much gaming on the phone though, so that's OK.

Now that Cm 10.2 is starting to work on i9500, I'd like to see how fast it'll be too :D.

Though I'd prefer having the dual boot option, I'm not ready to get rid of Touchwiz yet.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] karandevilocs:
I'm pretty sure that you experiences those issues BEFORE major i9500 update, it fixed almost everything that you stated above so ... NO there is not that kinda difference between two phones:eek::banghead:

+i don't get why you get some 600$+ phone and install stock android on it, if you want stock android any dual core (krait) and higher can run it blazing fast, Samsung charge you that kind of money because of camera optimization and hounded of other extra features, just an opinion! :confused:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] talhamid:
Well, breaking news for both of you: I installed the update first thing but it made no difference . Also mine wasn't the only i9500 having these issues. Also if you look around the net you will find several hundred such complaints. Also Touchwiz is bloated and slow and that's why most custom roms seek to remove as many features as they can. And I am not a noob, I have used Galaxy S, s2,s3, note and note 2 and now s4 (both versions) . I have played with countless custom roms. All I know is this: you can throw 16 cores and 8 gigs of ram on Touchwiz and it will still manage to slow down over a few days. Also there's no getting away from the fact that how ugly it is, and those extra features aren't usable day to day and certainly not worth the 3gb extra space in internal memory. As for throwing 600 USD, I think of that as just paying for the top notch hardware that Samsung always brings to the table. That's life.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] N3ptuNe:
I feel cheated, but, there is always something new, and my 19505 is fast enough, got a I7 _+ GTX690 if I want something quicker :P
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] norml:
More power to 'em. Just bad timing.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matheus_sc:
Soon we have a cm 10.2 build for GT-I9500
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ila420:
Any news when Samsung will release i9506?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] feedtheducks:
I would also like to know this. I hope they release it along side the note 3, beginning of next month.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GruberEXN:
Like the guy above me said- I think it will be launched next month.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dying4004:
if this phone is released widely will this receive enough devs support?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ila420:
Samsung didn't announced i9506 in IFA, don't know if this variant will ever be released.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alekxxx:
UK's EE firmware for I9506 just popped here
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] btemtd:
This is EXACTLY what I predicted. Well well well...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ila420:
Check out Galaxy S4 LTE-A (GT-I9506) specs confirmation and Antutu benchmark screenshots, just can't wait for this beast.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BarryH_GEG:
The N3 pulls a 32,907. Here's a link to other N3 benchmarks. I'd imagine the S-800 SGS4's should be similar.

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_ifa_2013-review-978p4.php

The S-800 N3 is using Qualcomm's Envelope Tracker. If the S-800 SGS4 is using it also it could greatly improve battery life; especially on LTE.

The Note contains a Qualcomm chip called an envelope tracker, which will dramatically reduce the amount of power needed to run its LTE radio. We’re going to see this technology in a lot more devices.

http://gigaom.com/2013/09/05/thanks...xy-note-3s-huge-screen-wont-kill-its-battery/​
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kurotsuchi:
Wow! Looks amazing!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dying4004:
strange - why samsung still not releasing i9506 worldwide? :'(
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pinsb:
Running down stock in the channel most likely reason.

Sent from Stock I9505 running 4.2.2
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dying4004:
might be but i beleive samsung has enough resources to get enough stock.

i wanted a snapdragon 800 powered mobile from sasmung. note 3 has this but its too big.

so, still waiting for i9506 eagerly
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3473:
Love my S4 (GT-i9500). But TW roms are laggy, and AOSP roms have issues

Had i9505 for a bit, GPU was a bit poor

Want Note 3 for the S800, but too big...

Hopefully the i9506 will solve all my problems, provided it's available in the UK and someone develops AOSP/CM roms
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ryanrioz:
OMG... really have S800 models?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] negrobembon:
Soon for europe i think
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ryanrioz:
oh yeah..

that's good news for Asian users... :D
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Segamalaga:
Deutsche Telekom (german ISP) confirms they will work with GT-I9506.

Link:

http://www.androidbeat.com/2013/09/...napdragon-800-powered-galaxy-s4/#.UingVWxuvMI

:fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluefa1con:
the new version is only for markets that are rolling their LTE advance network

dont worry i9500 and i9505 will be sammy's flagship models, its to cater to the whole world market

they did this with s2 too back in the days

there was a version for s2 with HD screen and LTE and people were freaking out that their i9100 is outdated

turned out the flagship model i9100 got all the updates while the old one is stuck on old firmwares
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arnie2012:
which varient is fasters/best

i have the Samsung galaxy s4 i9505 mobile I got form carphone warehouse in the uk, so im guessing that's the standard one.

I heard that the international version the i9500 is even faster but doesn't support british LTE or does it?

anyway. which is the fastest/ best variant then, as iv heard theirs even the newer version now the i9506 ( is this the Korean, Japanese version) if so isn't this the version that Europe is getting as well.

if so would it work in the uk LTE 4g networks as im currently on o2 3g but il be going onto their 4g traffic soon. and if I can get the fastest version to run on the uk LTE 4g networks then il try and swap mine
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BarryH_GEG:
I think you're underestimating the speed that LTE-A will be released at. In the U.S., all four major carriers have announced they'll roll out some LTE-A this year. From this thread we know Germany and the UK are doing something this year too. At this point, since S-800 supports it, why shouldn't the manufacturers future proof their phones by adding cat 4 support? Every N3 sold will support LTE-A. And with the LG G2 and Sony X1 running S-800 it would make total sense for Samsung to deploy a "refresh" of the SGS4 to keep it competitive. Not saying they will but it would make sense.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] equake:
There maybe already a VZW version in the pipeline. We know that Korea already is operating a S4 w/S800 for their LTE-A version.

Model SCH-i545L already has its source code available on the Samsung site.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dying4004:
just found an interesting thing in sammobile.

firmware for i9506 for Vodafone Australia. But Vodafone Australia doesnt even have i9506

Model: GT-I9506

Country: Australia (Vodafone)

Version: Android 4.2.2

Changelist: 1414753

Build date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 14:21:22 +0000

Product Code: VAU

PDA: I9506XXUAMHF

CSC: I9506VAUAMH3

MODEM: I9506XXUAMHD
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] onbacardi:
Maybe their planning on getting it soon. Stupid to build a firmware for a phone you are not planning on stocking!

Sent from my GT-I9505
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ila420:
Samsung is also working on Galaxy S4 Active with Snapdragon 800, don't know how many more variants they release.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shudder123:
blah, i just bought a i9505 and then find out about this. the question is how many current s4 users will upgrade from the i9505 to the i9506? seems like all that is different is the cpu
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] windozeanti:
No thanks. My next phone will not be a Samsung.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andymihail:
I don't see the reason to update, since in only a few months they will release the S5. And money do not grow on trees...