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[Galaxy S 5 General] kaifkhan97:
yeah they are giving 20% off on citi bank credit card

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unfortunately I don't hav citi bank credit card
[Galaxy S 5 General] sachinaik:
Just now checked the device in Univercell. They said the Citibank discount offer is expired.

Only for HDFC bank they will give 5% off now.

The S5 looks sleek and slim. I handled the quadcore version. It was smooth. The screen is awesome.

Device was cool (under ac).

The multitasking button is awesome !!! The home button is more like N3 but feels a little solid in build quality.

The materials used look premium.
[Galaxy S 5 General] ryshah:
Citi offer expired ? How ? It was supposed to run atleast from launch day to 13 April!
[Galaxy S 5 General] sachinaik:
They said it expired yesterday.

But for 38890 Rs anyone can buy Note3 N9005 from ebay India.

It has below advantages :

1. Bigger screen, better battery life.

2. 3GB ram, 32GB internal memory.

3. Qualcom snapdragon 800 2.3Ghz quad core. Real HMP.

4. Better looking with more sqarish design, leather looking back cover.

5. No need to remove flap cover just to recharge, if you dont want ip67.

6. Bigger powerfull flash

7. Spen.

8. Better d3v support

I mean N3 qualcomm edition is literally 12k cheaper !!!
[Galaxy S 5 General] rl421403:
Offer is still valid. Buy from samsungindiaestore.com

https://samsungindiaestore.com/products/mobiles/Galaxy_S5_SM-G900HZWA

Pay the balance amount from 11th to 13th April to complete the transaction.

You get 20% cashback on the balance amount to your credit card account by 15th July 2014
[Galaxy S 5 General] Suraj.Udg:
Okay here goes my small review.

I got a white one.

Comming from a Note3, first of all, this thing literally feels tiny. But faster indeed.

New Touchwiz is far better than the previous one.

Camera is considerably better.

Fingerprint scanner is spot on, though not a fastest way to unlock the phone. (Swipe to unlock is hasslefree)

Does NOT lag.

Screen as the best one I've ever used so far.

It is waterproof...I dropped it in a bucket of water for like 40 minutes.

The 'task switcher' causes confusion few times.

The phone really feels rigid and solid. It doesnt feel cheap or something. Looks nice in hand and is ergonomic as well.

Loudspeaker is okayish. Not louder than N3 though.

Battery test comming soon :)
[Galaxy S 5 General] kaifkhan97:
So yesterday purchased Galaxy S5 (White) for 53k
[Galaxy S 5 General] anmolbedi:
Joined the league. .. got galaxy S5 for 51k and got 20% cash back on my citibank card. .. All in all happy. White S5
[Galaxy S 5 General] sandeep20064096:
Hi how is the battery life how many hours of screen on time your are getting
[Galaxy S 5 General] kaifkhan97:
batt life is awesum when power saving is on

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Guys tell me best apps
[Galaxy S 5 General] NiC00L:
Ordered one for dad. As i'm currently happy with note 2. So not gonna order for me. Also ordered HD Xtremeguard screen protector from Ebay. Will update here once i got both. New member so can't update link here.
[Galaxy S 5 General] hellmainia:
Its supports download booster because some devs said that download booster only works with lte

Sent From Note 2 Xda premium app

Running on DN3 V 4.4.2 RC2
[Galaxy S 5 General] system.img:
It doesn't support DL Booster on 3G AFAIK.
[Galaxy S 5 General] trein91:
Antutu score guys?
[Galaxy S 5 General] dragon135:
Hi folks,

If you all don't mind, please share your benchmark score, battery life, and about heat in here.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2714579

So we can know if this is better or not than s4 octa or s5 snapdragon

Sent from GT-I9500
[Galaxy S 5 General] kaifkhan97:
around 9000
[Galaxy S 5 General] sachinaik:
Can someone post CPU-Z screenshots of s5 ?
[Galaxy S 5 General] rakeshishere:
Unboxing by C4ETech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=753RPhQVF10
[Galaxy S 5 General] kaifkhan97:
Here the screen shot
[Galaxy S 5 General] kaifkhan97:
Antutu Score 8
[Galaxy S 5 General] sukee007:
Download booster

i got the S5 yesterday and i am not able to look up the download booster in settings. Did they remove the download booster feature from indian s5 ?
[Galaxy S 5 General] system.img:
Yes, they removed it from the 3G version.
[Galaxy S 5 General] twisted_mind:
If i remember correctly, i *did* get a prompt asking my consent for it when i first did a factory reset of my exynos variant...
[Galaxy S 5 General] system.img:
Prompt for what? Download Booster?
[Galaxy S 5 General] twisted_mind:
Yes.. i could be horribly wrong.. but i remember seeing something about it during the initial setup out of the box....
[Galaxy S 5 General] imran3230:
Download bushter mising indian galaxy s5
[Galaxy S 5 General] sandeep20064096:
Even I have the same I can see the processer speed as 1.3 only does every have same or its only mine
[Galaxy S 5 General] kaifkhan97:
Having the same problem

Cant see download booster

Also facing sum proximity sensor prob
[Galaxy S 5 General] vicedens2002:
Indian version is exynos or Qualcomm? Because I saw a demo unit in Chennai(mugappair west reliance digital) it had a sticker on the top bezels outerside as Qualcomm 4G
[Galaxy S 5 General] rakeshishere:
Scamming customers just like S4 days. Indian variant is Exynos and LG beat Samsung by launching 4G variant of the LG G2 :mad:
[Galaxy S 5 General] vicedens2002:
Really? :eek:
[Galaxy S 5 General] Kartik pat:
Yeah. Same with the note 3! Demo units are of Qualcomm and they are selling exynos variant. :banghead:
[Galaxy S 5 General] vicedens2002:
Really. So shocked. Samsung fooling us. :eek: anyways me looking into z2 or HTC one m8
[Galaxy S 5 General] Kartik pat:
Z2 going to launch tomorrow for around 46-47k and htc m8 will b above 50k i think.
[Galaxy S 5 General] kaifkhan97:
So this is not the right place for you

Go and discuss on z2 or HTC m8 whichever mob u r buying
[Galaxy S 5 General] hapticc:
Root Samsung Galaxy S5 easily
[Galaxy S 5 General] tariq2kn:
Samsung cheats a lot in India...

It sold earlier S2 i9100g variant instead of i9100 i'ntl model.

Currently available Note 3 in India doesn't have an UHD 2160p video camera whereas the I'ntl model does, & it is also selling with the same price range of Rs.45,000.
[Galaxy S 5 General] i9100g user:
Well that's not totally the same...

Exynos model easily matches S801 in performance.

Also i9100g wasn't meant to be for India exclusively.
[Galaxy S 5 General] ryshah:
True!

P.S.

My White S5 is for sale at 40K if anyone is interested.

I wanted the Black color which wasn't available at launch and was rumored to arrive after a month!

Just got a call from the dealer that it arrives today and I would love to get that !

The current phone will cost me 41200/- after Citi discount of 20% = 10300 less from 51500/-

Selling for a lot less than that and the buyer can get it without the need of a Citibank card and without having to wait for the Cashback.

Have original Bill, Box and accessories and everything that came with the phone. Absolutely mint.

I ain't really sure if I can post this here or if it has to be a separate sale thread.

Mods, incase it's against the rules, will take it off !
[Galaxy S 5 General] ryshah:
Why no updates on this thread ? Aren't people buying the S5 in India ? :P
[Galaxy S 5 General] kaifkhan97:
yup I think its too costly . So no one thinking of buying it
[Galaxy S 5 General] ipsuvedi:
Any chance getting 900F ..SD version on india ..1st or 2nd hand ??

Dev supportwise 900F gonna get all test..already 5-6 great roms there ...while 900H is IDK why being ignored!! :(
[Galaxy S 5 General] i9100g user:
Looks like there is a 2k display - S805 version of S5 :confused:

http://gsminsider.com/2014/04/samsu...ns-unannounced-devices-arrived-india-testing/
[Galaxy S 5 General] sandeep20064096:
Hi Guys,

How much time your galaxy s5 900H is taking to fully charge with the official samsung charger.
[Galaxy S 5 General] rl421403:
S5 prices are slashed already in INDIA.

It's available at 46831/- on flipkart. You might see another price cut in next few weeks. I think it will go and stabilize near 40k for a while.

Reason, S5 is not selling very well here and also it's facing strong competition from other flagship (cheaper alternatives with comparable specs/technology).

Flipkart link.

http://www.flipkart.com/samsung-gal...=b_2&ref=56a39467-1afd-489d-958d-0f08d182345d
[Galaxy S 5 General] amankapoor4:
Absolutely, it's such a sorry state for people who got it for 51990 a week back and now it is 46,450.
[Galaxy S 5 General] abhinavsg:
To be very honest guys, does not make any sense to buy an exynos version. All said and some the big.LITTLE architecture is faulty and I personally don't trust Samsung's exynos. Exynos is technologically inferior to snapdragon any give day of the week. Then come the unrealistic pricing of s5. Even 40k is too much. I checked out the phone myself and didn't find any premium feel about it. Samsung had to launch a successor to s4 and that's what they did w/o any serious work on s5. Which was precisely the case from s3 to s4. Indian customers are being made fools with this second grade s5 at the most premium price. S4 sold considerably less than s3 same is going to be the trend with s5. Not only in India but internationally. HTC M8 or Sony Z2 or LG G3 will be a much better bet. I am currently using LG G2 and am very satisfied with it. I am keen about Z2 or M8 or G3.
[Galaxy S 5 General] system.img:
If big.LITTLE architecture is faulty, why is Qualcomm working on big.LITTLE chips for 2015?
[Galaxy S 5 General] netarchie:
Galaxy S5

I have been using the S5 since 10 days now and very much satisfied with it.Camera is really nice in the phone.Samsung has also done a good job on the content it has put on the phone like the smart remote app, the kids mode ect.. I find it quite useful.

I am looking for a back cover for the phone, any recommended suggestions??
[Galaxy S 5 General] sandeep20064096:
Hi How is the battery back up and how much time its taking to fully charge.
[Galaxy S 5 General] netarchie:
S5

Battery life is nothing to talk about, hardly lasts 15 to 16 hours on full charge. It charges pretty quick though in about 2 hours.
[Galaxy S 5 General] abhinavsg:
that's what buddy, 'working on' also covers improvements over previous glitches or issues. at the moment big.LITTLE has'nt proven its worth yet. exynos itself if reason enough for me to turn down s5. these are all my personal thoughts which I am entitled to share on the forum. I thought s5 is a waste of money & people should be warned before buying it, so wrote what i did. ;)
[Galaxy S 5 General] kaifkhan97:
Currently I think dat exynos is not a better option . I have been using the phone since launch.

Here's , My First impression ,

Look wise I liked the black variant.Unfortunately I got the white variant.

UI - Can do better

Wifi - Superb Range is awesum.

Can't get the download booster feature

Battery Life - Good ,If not use heavily

S View Cover - Need an update.

Gaming - sometimes lag

Power Saving - Very useful If Restrict CPU performance is unchecked.Also I found restrict screen output very useful as it slow down the fps

Flappy bird moves very slow when this is on
[Galaxy S 5 General] i9100g user:
Faulty ? What sort of 'faulty' things did you experience aside from lack of support etc(which are mostly not related to big.LITTLE itself but Samsung's fault for fragmenting with different variants )

And yes be more specific with big.LITTLE if you care to reply.
[Galaxy S 5 General] system.img:
There are no glitches or faults with big.LITTLE.

For full benefit of big.LITTLE, Heterogeneous Multi Processing needs to be enabled for optimum ratio between power and battery life.

S5 is the first Samsung flagship(and second Samsung phone) to have HMP enabled so we cannot compare it with S4/Note 3(which had cluster migration). The Note 3 Neo(Hexa Core CPU) has proven that big.LITTLE delivers with HMP(see heat tests and performance).

S5 may be a waste of money. But that's not due to the big.LITTLE CPU at all.
[Galaxy S 5 General] Mandeep148:
Hey whats up guys :)

How's your device?

Came from z1, whats the latest Indian price?
[Galaxy S 5 General] CLARiiON:
^^ it appears some random users know more about SOC design than Samsung themselves. I invite them to make their own processors from next time.
[Galaxy S 5 General] anmolbedi:
Moved on from using galaxy s5 for 4 days to HTC one m8. Quantum leap I must say.
[Galaxy S 5 General] kaifkhan97:
M thinking tooooo
[Galaxy S 5 General] ryshah:
How did you source the M8 ? Import phone ?
[Galaxy S 5 General] anmolbedi:
Nope, got Indian warranty handset yesterday itself. Distributors getting stock now.
[Galaxy S 5 General] ryshah:
Oh! Ok! And without any fanfare or updates from HTC ? Or did I miss the announcements ?

And if you don;t mind me asking, for how much did you pick it up ?
[Galaxy S 5 General] anmolbedi:
49k, with Bill
[Galaxy S 5 General] NoteboyTech:
Really disappointing to see what Samsung did this time... they finally killed their Galaxy "S" Series in India... last phone which was in real a great smartphone for me was S2. Blazing Fast.. Good looking and gorgeous.. But since S3, their Design has been poor yet they think they are like Apple. Pricing a Bad looking device for 50K in front of a real cool looking device M8 and iPhone 5s. Seriously, the price had been the major let down for me.. 50K, I haven't seen a s5 in the wild yet I haven't. and moreover in stores too.. just 1 or 2 boxes.. didn't even see a Demo device.. and moreover they selling the Exynos, Samsung should learn that India is not a dumping ground for Crap Exynos.. I have seen a Note 3 S800 and Exynos 5.. did tests found the SD was snappier and faster..

I guess s5 would teach them a good lesson.. lets see what Note 4 has in store.. P.s Note series is really better than S series..

and guys how are all of you feeling with s5 who have mistakenly bought it! ?
[Galaxy S 5 General] gaurav.dey:
S5 strange issue

Hi guys,

I have been a silent follower but now I really need your help to get out of this mess.

Bought an s5 on 23rd apr, since the very first day noticed a strange issue that when listening to songs for a long time, say an hour at a stretch the music app just crashes and then when I check my running applications all of them show restarting without actually restarting the services.

After this the phones response becomes pathetic and every app crashes the moment I start them. I have to reboot the device to get it working again. What seems to be the issue?

Only happening when I listen to music for quite some time.It seems the phone is just not able to free enough ram as ram usage peaks and no amount of killing all apps frees any ram.

Should I not get a replacement phone? Samsung svc people were telling me they'll update the software and then see, but then my DOA period would be over. I am regretting my decision to buy the phone.

Help guys!

Ps: Checked with kies and on sammobile, I am already running on the latest build. G900HXXU1ANCI
[Galaxy S 5 General] kannanX10:
do a hard reset and check whether ur problem is persisting..............
[Galaxy S 5 General] CLARiiON:
If you're so unhappy, go get some other device. It's not like Samsung made this phone to satisfy your ego. They are in business to sell devices, they are not arsed about what a random users in XDA demand.

If you know so much, why you are bothering to post here? Obviously S5 is not for you, I think you should transfer the OP to some other guy and move to M8 or iPhone 5S forum. I don't think you are adding anything to this thread other than simply spewing your negative thoughts about the device. Here's a simple thing -- if you are not interested in the phone, why are you posting here?
[Galaxy S 5 General] Mandeep148:
^

Dear sir,

According to Xda rule. Every one have rights to express what they thought about device and review, its against rule by stoping or saying harsh word to people those shared their view.

Be lovely with all, s5 is not our relation or brother sister, its just a tech so not to be fight here or harsh language..
[Galaxy S 5 General] NoteboyTech:
Who said I am not interested in this device... i am a samsung fanboy tbh.. and i have always admired their devices... its just this time samsung disappointed me so, thats why I wanted to express my feelings... see guys are facing problens only... nothing else with s5... and the facts which I stated aren't wrong.. btw thanks for advice! And what should I add?? Add the price drop to 46K? Like really? What i feel is if the price is sharp 40K then people may buy! Only 2 members in this thread I have seen who bought this phone!
[Galaxy S 5 General] CLARiiON:
They are a business, their main idea is profit, not charity. They will reduce price (like with every electronic device) when they seem fit. Like I said, if you think it's not for you, don't buy it. Nobody forced you. As simple as that, there are tons of smartphone in market.

Samsung sold 89 million smartphones last Quarter. Do you see 89 million people telling you in XDA that they bought Samsung??
[Galaxy S 5 General] sachinaik:
Long term Sammy user here....

The issue u r facing is the famous sam**** memory issue.

S3 had the same issue. Out of 832MB Ram only 200MB was available. I was unable to listen to music while browsing. The dumb phone used to kill Audio player software to make free space but not the lardarse Samsung s * services and softwares.

Then I installed a Rom which had lot of memory optimizations and tweaks. Somehow I used it with pain for 1yr.

Bought s4 thinking now it will have good multitasking abilities. But it sucked to the core with new octa core. Phone used to heat up so much that it rebooted twice a day. ****tiest experience ever.

Now using N3. It has overheating issue fixed. But has Ram issues. During boot it's 1.6GB free. Within a day it falls down to 700MB. Clearing Recents and Cleanall button in task manager doesn't help. Lord knows who is using those 1.9GB of Ram.

Now I purposefully loaded Ram to see if I get anything out of those 1.9GB. I opened 4 browsers with 10 tabs (Now for the love of holy god don't tell me nobody will open 4 browsers with 10 tabs. M just exposing Sammy bug using a usecase and showing that keep using the phone for 2 or 3 weeks without reboot will eventually get you to a state. Read further pls). Free memory shrunk to 250MB. Phone became ultra laggy. No operation was possible. Somehow I closed all the 4 browsers. Now for the love of god free Ram was 450MB.

I cleared Recents, cleared in task manager, force closed all apps from App manager(both running and cached) Still 450MB free RAM.

Nobody tell me free Ram is waste ram bull****. Because when I needed ram it didn't free the ram.

Only reboot got me back to 1.6GB free Ram.

I'm a Software Engineer with linux memory internal knowledge. This is what is called MEMORY LEAK.

Throw that phone and buy One M8 or suffer like I suffered with S3.

Ps: I've bought all Sammy flagships right from s2 till N3. So m not some htc fan boy. Peace.
[Galaxy S 5 General] ruchirtrehan:
I know what you're saying and I understand I was on the same boat like you few years back when I was new to Androids but as I started learning about androids I learned there's nothing wrong about it and hence lived with it and I have no issues till date by "RAM issues" on androids or sammy phones, but seriously? what for do you need to clear RAM? Android is meant to consume RAM and free RAM means waste RAM, the RAM being consumed is for the apps so where you leave it they don't restart and reload faster and it's not only with sammy phones it's probably all android even take nexus it's just nexus will consume a bit less RAM due to no touchwiz, you need to know touchwiz is a very heavy skin over android which needs to consume lot of RAM, I have a S5, Note 3 and Xperia Z1 and you'll be shocked to know Xperia z1 having the lightest skin of all eats RAM pathetically, sometimes I don't even have 50 mb RAM on Z1 and no matter what I need to restart it which is very annoying but I don't certainly have those probs in S5 or Note 3 but at the end Android will consume RAM no matter what and it's the nature of it and there's nothing wrong with it, and I personally don't have any issues of music app crashing even after using for 5 hours on any device so probably not a RAM issue really.
[Galaxy S 5 General] drakester09:
I also have a Nexus 5 and can say by experience that the RAM issue is not caused by Android itself.

Stock Kitkat remains well under 1GB of usage with heavy multitasking.

Manufacturer customizations are to blame for the leaks or poor memory management.
[Galaxy S 5 General] hellmainia:
Can some on provide watchon apk fro m indian s5 version. .

Pls
[Galaxy S 5 General] seltaeb:
While what you say is probably true, it seems to me that there is lesser interest in this phone compared to its predecessors in earlier years. For instance, if you look at the Indian threads for the S1 through S4, you'll find that there was a lot of excitement prior to launch of those phones, bunch of unpacking photos and generally more interest, which does not seem to be the case this time around. IRL too, usually I used to find a bunch of people buying the new S-whatever in the first couple of weeks but haven't come across a single person who owns it this time around (myself included).

It is however possible that we have reached a sort of (at least temporary) plateau in the terms of mobile phone features / usefulness and people are simply happy with their existing phones. And enthusiasts (yours truly included), I think are simply tired of Samsung's Touchwiz, Exynos, Knox etc-related fiascos.
[Galaxy S 5 General] Mandeep148:
Guys I heared that price droped.

What is latest price of s5?
[Galaxy S 5 General] system.img:
About 47-48K
[Galaxy S 5 General] CLARiiON:
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[Galaxy S 5 General] farrukhna:
in my view S5 sales wont match S4's sales ..
[Galaxy S 5 General] drakester09:
S4 sales weren't as good as Samsung expected.

S5 won't have much difficulty matching them.
[Galaxy S 5 General] NoteboyTech:
Just played with a s5 today, yeah the device was charging so it was uber hot! I found it snappy the interface and the back was really great!
[Galaxy S 5 General] rl421403:
Rs. 46736/- on Flipkart.

http://www.flipkart.com/samsung-galaxy-s5/p/itmdv6f4k7hctgjz?pid=MOBDUUDTUFXXUQBD

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Yep I also agree with that.
[Galaxy S 5 General] ryshah:
It's cheaper than that !

http://www.flipkart.com/samsung-galaxy-s5/p/itmdv6f4k7hctgjz?pid=MOBDUUDTADHVQZXG&otracker=variants

Just under 43499/-
[Galaxy S 5 General] azeter:
Its 44k now read todays TOI
[Galaxy S 5 General] rl421403:
Yes prices are further reduced.

It's 43499/- now.

So it's official that phone is not selling well enough.
[Galaxy S 5 General] CLARiiON:
You guys are really weird. First when the price was around 50K, you cried for whole month about high price and cheap quality. Now when they are reducing the prices, you start shouting about less sales. Decide once and for all, what you want? Do you want the price to be high or low?

Samsung Galaxy S5 pre-orders smash S4's by 130%

Have you seen the price of HTC One Max? It's 53775 in Flipkart.

It must be selling like crazy by your logic.
[Galaxy S 5 General] system.img:
I think this is the right time to buy the S5 in India.

If demand goes up, Samsung might increase the prices a bit.

Quite a drop in price I have to say! :eek:
[Galaxy S 5 General] rkial:
Its 43k on shopping.indiatimes.

They have the white, black and blue colors.
[Galaxy S 5 General] aashuG:
The new price are in the exchange of your old mobile u can get discount upto 7k and this is upon the samsung dealer that how he pay for ur mobile.

Edit : the new offer also include free acc. Of 3500 and apps from samsung hub .