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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blgblade:
battery is broken after 2 month -_-
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] natzy85:
I think the biggest disappointment could be the audio chipset in I9505. Can someone confirm that it's capable of recording good audio quality in video format in loud environment?

I don't own one and I would like to buy the I9505 because it supports the Google experience and I don't want to be stuck on CM or Touchwiz with outdated firmware. Thank you!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcasares:
Well, I recorded a performance and was ok for me at an event. Don't expect to be a studio recording but it was good quality considering all the factors. Never tried before so it was my first time so I can't compare. Didn't try with video either, just audio recording with ASR app.

The problem is that is not directional so you have to be aware of other sounds near you that will go above the performance (like claps)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] natzy85:
Thank you but I need video proof :) I know the i9500, note 2 and htc one perform quite well so it will be ashame to buy another droid with the same problem as I had with Galaxy S2 and Gnex.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcasares:
Isn't the audio recording and the audio on video recording the same?

I mean, they use the same hardware to capture sound. :p
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enko2974:
Bad camera quality,very bad pictures.

My friends s3 mini takes better pictures.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] natzy85:
Yes but on any droid there are apps who can control gain on the mic for audio only. I mananged to record good audio quality on SGS2 and Gnex but on video it was crap.On video you cannot control it.

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You clearly are joking. The camera quality is more then OK i'm just worried about the audio part. ( only on video recording )

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Found this. Pretty decent but I still don't know what version it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXzkrRGQZ5Y

and this :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvhZ8TdFv74
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vivekpaib:
The phone still feels sluggish with TW based roms even with the phone having high specs...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luloo:
I do find that the phone feels slugish with TW roms also. I have been trying a few different kernels now but still feels sluggish. I also wish the speaker was better; my blackberry 9700 has a better speaker than the S4. I tried watching netflix on it yesterday and I could barely hear the audio out of the speaker.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aresbv2000:
Ok....I didn`t read all the reply`s from this thread.Just the OP post.So my reply would be a message judging the S4(I9505).

A few years ago...I had a Galaxy S1 wich was(in my opinion) a shi%@y phone!Since then I didn`t bought any other Samsung phone because of the first Galaxy phone wich dissapointed me at all.When the S4 was released the hardware was verrrrryyyy fascinating for me.So I bought this phone(sold my Nexus 4).From the first boot I`ve noticed the glitches, lag and any other problems that TouchWiz has.So...I tought that I will flash a custom ROM and get rid of this problem.F#^2ck no....all custom ROM`s for i9505 have lag comparing to Nexus 4(wich has a lower hardware performance).Finally I choosed Paranoid ROM as my daily ROM but this ROM has also a small lag at opening/closing app animation.But that`s fine for me.So....the whole ideea would be that even the hardware performance could perform better all the Samsung ROM`s are verry laggy wich is very dissapointing for a phone wich is a bit expensive comparing to other phones.

The main features of this phone that made me choose it were the display and the camera.Today I set a black wallpaper on my homescreen and I noticed that "smearing" isue.What made me choose the amoled display is the true black and the vivid colours.But now I can`t use a true black wallpaper because the smearing issue.So...the display even if has the big resolution and pixel density is verry annoyng because the smearing issue.

The camera is great...but if you use an AOSP rom you can`t get the whole functionality of this camera.So you have to choose...use a TW based ROM with lag and all the sh%$t but great camera functionality...or use a AOSP ROM wich is more faster but you loose the camera functionality wich make it just like any other normal camera.

The battery life is....just ridiculous.Even my phone is undervolted and use a black screen as a wallpaper I can`t get more than a day at normal usage.

All the sensors and air gestures...I bet that nobody use them more than a week before disabling them.

So...in general...this phone is a fully CRAP.I don`t recommend to buy this phone.

I think I`m gonna sell my I9505 S4 when Nexus 5 will be released!

And for short...F**K YOU Samsung!!!!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zubairamd:
Flash the Google edition mate... Lucky you have the 505 not 500
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paras:
I really love the s4 now as I have a custom Rom.

Sent from my HTC One
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] natzy85:
Thank you! I already ordered Nexus 4 over S4.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AFC3:
Holding the S4 feels like you are holding a cheap toy.The whites are grey.Its laggy and TW is extremely ugly.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thatsupnow:
Sounds like you got a bum phone and are complaining for the sake of complaining. I've had mine since release and I've got no lag and never experienced the smearing that you and a lot of others have seen.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paras:
on stock its a bit laggy but on rom its great
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aresbv2000:
Man....that was my personal opinion about this phone!Maybe you never got a Nexus phone to fell the real speed of Android phones!I don`t mean benchmark tests or other irrelevant things(at least for me).And for the smear issue just set a pure black wallpaper and you`ll notice the problem.Or maybe your phone was bought from another country, as we all know that eastern europe sells a bit more poor quality devices than UK or USA.

Anyway...just installed the leak 4.3 and I`ve noticed some iprovements.Better battery,a bit more lag free(still does exist).Smearing issue almost fixed.But...if you search over the internet you will find that the smearing issue is not a software related problem.When you put a true black wallpaper practically the pixels over the black area are turned off.So the smearing issue appears because the poor refresh rate of the display.Smear issue is the little time that the pixels take to turn on themselves.So....you will probably have this issue as well since is hardware related.The only fix for this problem would be to get rid of the true blacks and use a deep dark grey so the pixels not turn off on the black area.That`s what Samsung did in the 4.3 leak!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mali_veseljak:
Letter S from the back cover has fallen.

Scrach on screen, burn in...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jujuburi:
Lol, some crazy comments here. Those over-hyped Nexus devices might be 1% faster than TW based Samsung ROMs but really comparison between the two is beyond childish. I've used AOSP crap, just to see what was the hype all about, Nexus crap and all, seriously, just didn't get the point why on earth would one use it! Naked plain nonsense. If I were to use naked things with nothing whatsoever I'd have gone for Windows or iOS platform. If someone didn't like S1, which was at that time one of the best phone available, why buy the S4 again? People who likes Nexus should buy it, who is forcing them to buy S or Note series?

Saying Nexus doesn't lag and S4 does is totally childish, lag is in core of Android, it's deeply integrated in the base itself! God knows why some people don't do their homework before buying something, just because you have money don't go for anything, see if it fits your need or not first.

And about battery life, S4 has pretty decent battery backup. Someone gotta be smoking something to say battery life is bad/poor!

I'm not Samsung fan btw, but after seeing hTC's Sense, Sony's UI, I find TW way much better than them. It's simple, yet efficient. I'm not even comparing any other UI, like Nexus's AOSP UI, I don't find it as an comparable UI to anything!

I'm disappointed in S4 for two reasons, that same plastic build materials, glossy back cover and that screen cracking topic, other than that it's all fine, yes, it's slower than Note 2, the browser is raped by Samsung, still the light weight and the perfect size is really nice, and not to mention the fantastic display.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ktouy:
To be honest im dissapointed to all companies i bought this device with a lot of effort and it cost me a lot of money, and i enjoy it 100% a month, after that i lost the count with the amount off devices and variants and blablabla its kind of anoying, it reach a point when i really doesnt care anymore about the benchmarks and scores and waterproof or even megapixeles. I just use my phone to pick up calls and chat. So that dissapointment left me in a crossroad when i do enjoy my phone, i have nothing to complain and i dont give a **** if has 8, 16 or 32 cores. So im dissapointed with samsung but not with my phone. Probably the last one in a very long time...

|KTO¹³|

Sent from my i9500
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aitch:
Do AMOLED screens have burn-in problem?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AvelonTs:
You enjoyed fully your phone for a month and then you were disappointed that other variants emerged? That doesn't make any sense to me since you are satisfied with your phone ...

I carried one of the first amoled screen phones for 3 years ... never noticed any burn in ... that doesn't mean amoled screen doesn't burn in ... i m just making a point
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ktouy:
Lets put it on this way, after the famous exynos octa we discover that wants true octa, then a 800 snapdragon variant then lte-a variant its kind of dissapointing for me trust on a company that say " oh you spend money on this its the best, wait... No... Isnt the best anymore... This is the best now buy it..."

|KTO¹³|

Sent from my i9500
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crash_194:
I came to the s4 from a nexus 5 and love it to bits. I think it is a great phone with great hardware, I like touchwiz even though it isnt 100% smooth all of the time. For me if you don't like touchwiz don't buy a samsung device with it on...?

As far as support goes, yes it would be nice to get every update going but the i9505 will at least be getting a solid version of 4.3

I personally like samsung devices and how fast samsung develope them. I'd love a round to have a play with even though I've just got the s4! Lol
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aitch:
Do you know when it will come out? Will we also get 4.4?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AvelonTs:
Probably Q3-Q4 2014 ... wouldn't want to hurt the s5 sales by running the same software version as it's predecessor ...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hovax615@hotmail.com:
You had the nexus 5? And went to the gs4?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crash_194:
With all the rumours flying around lately I would think a gs5 would at least be released with kitkat if it is coming out next year?

The s4 has a far superior screen to the n5, battery life is certainly no worse or better between the two devices, s4 has the ability to take a memory card and has a riduculous amount of software features compared to n5. Nexus 5 built quality is also not exactly amazing. I do like nexus devices but in all honesty I do prefer samsung.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zubairamd:
NEXUS 5 ??? How on Earth?? Am I on Mars??
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crash_194:
Lol sorry mate I meant nexus 4. I'd just woke up :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r3vo:
Hmm, I usually get from 2,5-3,5 hours of screen time on my i9505, and I use it to check e-mails, twitter and a bit of web browsing and calls...So yeah I'm very dissapointed in battery life.

Also cameras FOV when using 16:9 is very narrow and the Wi-Fi keeps on disconnecting!

Everything else is OK for me :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zubairamd:
K but you gave me a heart attack there!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rl421403:
Really?

You seriously thought he was talking about Nexus 5.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hovax615@hotmail.com:
Yeah that's what I was thinking also. Of course it would be better in specs vs the nexus 4 and you can get aosp Roms for the gs4 if you want that Google experience.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abonides:
Disappointed in Samsung not just s4.Knox should b an option. I'm bailing on them going to oppo n1 Cyanogen edition:D
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rl421403:
Same here. I am not really disappointed with S4 but Samsung. S4 is a great phone and I am really enjoying it.

But Samsung, they are finding new ways each month so we do not enjoy our phones. Sudden death, Flash counter, Knox, Region lock, eFuse. What's next in line?

I am also bailing on Samsung for probably Nexys 5 or Oppo or some other Chinese manufacturer.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AvelonTs:
We are talking about the same thing ... what i implied was that gs5 would launch with 4.4 so some months after it's release will get it on gs4 too ... and probably would be the last update we'll get but who knows ... at this point not even samsung knows i believe ...

They are clearly working for google or lg and get their hands off some prototypes ... :P
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crash_194:
To be honest I am a massive phone fan and always want the latest and greatest lol I think that is why I like samsung so much as they feed my obsession! :) love your s4's people!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] valentinrascu:
My battery is bicome fat. The color of the bezel is gone

tapatalked with s4
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dajumper:
My frustration is that with sd case issue! Always when I open galary sd card unmounted error!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crash_194:
See that is another issue I haven't seen. But obviously with me being a samsung fanboy I've got a samsung sd card too lol :) (I do have an iphone 5 as well just to show I'm not completely biased)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donalgodon:
Yes, they absolutely do. It's inherent to their design, and inescapable, though lower brightness settings can mask the severity. Another problem is that the RGB diodes degrade at different rates. The blue diode dies 10x faster than green and 5x faster than red.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] negrobembon:
Not dissapointed with the S4 but with Samsung in general, things were so much better during the S3 days

so im going Sony next year
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ausboy 2011:
There would be no way you'd have burn in on the s4 unless you've got your screen on 24/7 every day since launch thats a fact. If you have lag or problems just backup and do a factory reset I tend to advise customers to do a factory reset when they pick up the phone before they start installing stuff lol

Sent from my S4 i9505
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aitch:
Dangit! How long does an AMOLED screen last in general?

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Huh? So AMOLEDs do not burn in?

If I do a factory reset - will google know all my apps and reinstall them automatically, or do I have to do all that manually?

Also, once I've loaded them all up - will the S4 start lagging again just like before?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donalgodon:
The estimates vary, but in general terms, it's years of use, not weeks or months, but again, this varies so widely based on the type of AMOLED display, screen-on time, brightness settings, etc.

There are a few people who swear they don't have any screen burn in despite using their screens at 100% brightness for five hours a day, or some such rubbish. but those are the same people who tend to think that Beats headphones sound better than any other, or that the S4 doesn't have any screen smear, etc.

But, seriously, if you keep the screen in normal brightness, and use common sense, burn in should not be much of an issue for most people. I have owned the S2,S3, and the S4, and none of them have any serious burn in, because I follow the common sense guidelines, but even with that, the S2 and S3 both have some burn-in evidenced around the status bar area. It's real, no matter what anyone tells you, but don't take my word for it. Do your own research and decide.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crash_194:
Here is a decent article on TRIM support in android 4.3

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/162667-google-slips-trim-support-into-android-4-3-to-end-io-lag
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AvelonTs:
As i already mentioned i had an old phone with an amoled screen(one of the first actually) for like 3 years never notice burn in ... and i m not the guys that didn't notice smearing and such ... i m not saying that the screen didn't burned in at all ... but it was not noticeable and usually i m a person who notices that kind of stuff ... the point is that as you said with reasonable usage of any phone burn in shouldn't be a problem even for quite a long time ... because 3 years for a handset at least with today's standards is a lot of time ... to my knowledge little people keep their handsets for that long before upgrading ... also the transparent status bar will help offset the most common burn in area of the screen ... so i believe s4 screen can last long enough without problem for pretty much anyone ...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donalgodon:
I generally agree with everything you've said, but I was trying to emphasize in my response that there's a wider than acknowledged variance between devices (even using the same AMOLED technology) so, for example, in my case, even with common sense usage as described, my S3 and S2 both show very minimal signs of burn-in around the status bar area. I suspect that this is more common than not, and that this is why Samdung has adopted the hideous gray status bar approach.

At least KitKat will give us transparency, which IMO looks much better and should have been the default from the beginning. I don't think most people who have burn-in even know they have it, because unless it's really bad, you don't generally notice it without looking for it.

I just hope that people will realize that no device should be run at 100% (brightnes or volume) for any length of time without expecting negative consequences. It's not the manufacturer's fault, IMO, and I'm not suggesting that they put any warning sticker on the device against stupidity, because we all know that there's an infinite supply of that in the world.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AvelonTs:
I totally agree with that last one ...but hideous gray status bar? mine seems transparent with shadow like effect on top ... and i can't say it's hideous ... not at all actually

http://imageshack.us/f/809/0gvy.png/
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donalgodon:
Well, on the lockscreen, yes it is, but not everywhere else, like inside apps, etc. It's gray... and hideous.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjnhl68:
I have to replay to this comment. I do agree about display and battery life and want to add pretty good camera, but with all respect, I think you are very wrong about Nexus.

I have both phones and price of S4 is more than triple of the N4 price; S4 also one of the most expensive on the market.

I would expect lot more from S4 considering amount of money I have paid for it, especially comparing it to N4.

Instead, I'm very disappointed and here is why:

- cheep plastic material outside, though not so important to me

- TW launcher - In top class phone I have to install third party software for it to become smooth in basic operations like scrolling between screens???; I can't even resize any widget with it, WTF?

- 16GB of space isn't enough for me, because of preloaded Samsung crap; I have SD card, but only for media; and don't tell me that I can install all apps on SD; Now I would prefer more HTC One with 32GB of internal storage

- Air gestures an other smart features are marketing tricks; I did fell on it, but today, after 3 months of having this phone, all I can say is that they don't work most of the time; some due to not perfect light condition, some are in conflict with others... If I try to use drama mode on camera, I receive message that I'm not far enough, blah, blah..

- All recent restrictions Samsung has implemented in new firmware versions.

I admit I haven't done my homework before I spent my money on S4. I read lot of reviews, tests, saw lot of you tube videos, compared to other top models. I even tried all them in stores and S4 felt as right choice.

Nexus 4 is worth every single cent I have spent. No lags at all. It did not have any single issue for 6 month. Yes, it is lot heavier, camera not the same class as Samsung one, battery life not good enough as Samsung's, display solid, but not as good as S4, but it just works perfect.

It loads games even faster than my S4, no lags when internet browsing, 16GB internal memory more than enough for applications, games, navigation soft... And for media there is cloud so no problem without SD...What do you need more of the phone?

And on both I have Nova launchers, so theirs UI become pretty similar.

Maybe these phones are not in the same league, but if you consider money, N4 wins.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rl421403:
I had the same issue. You can monitor your sdcard with this app and see if your card unmount and mount itself very often (mostly in sleep mode).

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sdcardmonitor

If it does then it's a bad sdcard and you will need to use another.

I have sandisk 32 gb sdcard and it was under 3 year warranty. I talked to customer care and they replaced my sdcard with new one.

Now everything is working fine.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aitch:
You're killing me dude! You mean I can't max out my screen now that I've got a badass ZeroLemon 7500mAh battery! Dangit!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zubairamd:
S4 is bad, disappointing or other blahs because of a **** called TOUCHWIZ.. just root and debloat and see the difference otherwise flash an aosp rom ( cm,pac,aokp,pa... Which will be available just wait) and watch it become a speed demon. Your money won't get wasted, just wait and also there is android 4.3 in November and 4.4 in 2014. Let's see what will the versions pack
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anhilator00:
I wouldn't say phone size is too big at all.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matheus_sc:
I see some people said is bad but don't have the device, but for me major problem is touchwiz.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zubairamd:
If you are referring to me about saying s4 as bad and not owning the device..well you are right but wrong too.

The reason being that it is my dad who has the s4 but I use it majority of time.

Also I never said it is bad,touchwiz is bad,like you said!!

But if you were not referring to me, then PEACE and if you were (which I think as my signature goes) then also PEACE!!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dajumper:
Thanks for the tip!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jackthomas251:
Totally agree, I feel that S3 is much worth the money than S4.