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[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hello00:
yea i have encountered lag on both phones and on m7..n5..s4..s5..m8..z2..motox..u name it
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SolarTrans:
There will never be a device with no lag. Technology is limited by physics, and regardless of how fast the phone is, light the ROM is, and how low latency the panel is, there will always technically be lag. So your point is pretty much moot :P

But the point is that there's noticeably more lag on the OPO and S5 than the M8 and 5s.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dandroid13:
Android will always lag more than iOS, and that's a fact.

Enviado do meu Galaxy S4
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SolarTrans:
This is true, but the 30ms less input lag on the M8 helps get it up to par with the iPhone 5s (much more so than all other Android phones).
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dandroid13:
I wonder why only HTC has this...

Enviado do meu Galaxy S4
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] patrickl:
The One lacked replaceable battery which means it's useless after 2.5 to 3 years, alu body also isn't a plus (dents, blocks signals) didn't like the feel of the sharp edges, S4 has better sound quality through headphones and call quality, the camera of the One is far below par, blinkfeed is simply awful, Sense is just as horrible as Touchwiz (although most of it can be wiped under the rug by using Nova Launcher). So, no, the One wasn't the best device overall.

Tried the new One in the store and it suffers from pretty much the same problems. It's slightly less annoying to hold since they rounded the edges, but now it's too slippery. The ridiculous length and lack of battery door kills it for me though.

The S5 didn't add new gimmicks? How about the heart rate sensor and finger print scanner? I actually like the finger print thing. Works amazingly well even with one handed use (simply swipe the thumb).

Personally I would have liked to wait for the Sony Z2, but didn't have the time. The One M8 wasn't an option, just too many things against it.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Registerforwhat:
This is XDA so I expect, root/developer friendly phones to be popular here. My biggest fear w/the S5 right now is this, HTC has always been root friendly, I'm now trying to catch up on this Knox stuff and I really don't like that it instantly voids warranties, and seems to make things tougher for developers. HTC's advantage plan and them not caring if you root it seem to be another weight on my HTC scale.

What are your guys opinions on that? Disappointed with knox or less openness of this phone? Or am I way off thinking this phone is less friendly than the HTC? If I knew 100% a GPE would be in the future I'd get an S5 now and root that later but I just have a feeling it's not going to happen this round.

I've never had a Samsung but had a horrible time trying to fix my friends S2 a few yrs back.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SolarTrans:
Yeah I'm really not sure. They may just not think people notice. Every company has the tech to do it, but it probably just costs a more so they don't want to include it.

Samsung themselves said that the S5 panel response time is 0.01ms (not a typo), but that's not the touch latency. That's how fast the panel responds to a change in color.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] patrickl:
I notice no lag on the Galaxy S5, but I'm using Nova Launcher and I usually switch off the animations.

What do you even use to determine that the M8 has 30ms input lag?

I came across a list of input lag figures and it put the Note 3 on top as the fastest responding device. Not sure why the Galaxy S5 would supposedly be slower:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1oafsf/samsung_galaxy_note_3_records_the_fastest/
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barondebxl:
That was 6 months ago. The M8 beats it now.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=51644153
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SolarTrans:
Google it... Somewhere in this thread there's a link too. S5 (no air view): 91ms 5s: 75ms Note 3: 61ms M8: 36ms
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] patrickl:
So it's 46ms instead of 30ms and the Note 3 was already faster than all the supposedly "no-lag" iPhones.

To notice a 0.01s lag you'd have to moving your finger in a circle really fast to even get away from the dot. Let alone on 0.0046s.

"input lag" in imperceivable quantities is now the new megapixel and megahertz hype?
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dandroid13:
I'm quite sure these articles were sponsored by HTC... :p
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RCJ89:
Just found in language and keyboard settings you can set the s5 to call out who is calling and texting you. the text one is especially brilliant when im driving
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msavic6:
That's a really great feature, how's the voice output, is it using Google's Text to Speech or Samsung's?
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simacca:
Just downloaded the high quality voice packs for male and female. Might try out the aussie voice too.

I noticed that you can switch between Google and Samsung tts. Not sure if ones better than the other?
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SolarTrans:
0.046*

Milli=thousandth ;)

But if we can notice the difference, why criticize us and/or say we can't?

When moving through the UI quickly, those 100ms add up.

Edit: here's a screenshot of the post that I had:
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barondebxl:
I was always pleased with the G2 screen responsiveness so I think the S5 is just fine.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qipengart:
Update: thinking about getting the HTC One M8 or the LG G Flex.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SolarTrans:
^This. While the S4 was my only phone, I wasn't really bothered by the 114ms input lag. But when I used it in conjunction with the iPhone 5s, it just seemed to chug along (even the GPE). Because whatever phone I'm getting will be used with an iPhone 5s, I'd rather it not have more lag/touch latency.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] claud0902:
iPhone 5s is a fast phone, but is never a fastest one like you always claimed. At least in my personal case, my iPhone 5s had similar smoothness in UI operation as my Nexus 5 in the dalvik mode. But when opening apps like most of my social apps like Line, Katalk, Wechat etc.,my Nexus 5 is a clear winner. Not to mention the ART mode makes it the fastest phone I have ever used. The iPhone 5s however, wins in its smoothness in using almost every app as in the Nexus 5, I still experience lags on scrolling in a number of third party apps.

Back to the screen latency you mention, I believe you could notice a difference of 100ms against 46ms. However, I would debate the noticeable response difference you get in your side by side experiment is mainly caused by this scientific attribute, to me, another factor, the OS of the phone, plays a much more critical role. Same phone, HTC m7, in different systems: sense (4.3), converted gpe (4.3) and converted gpe (4.4), you will notice the small difference in the UI response. The later is the fastest in most cases; Different phones, the Note 3 with a faster latency can never help it to claim a winner over the Nexus 5 in terms of UI response and smoothness. The reason is simple, the heavy skinned TW OS pull the hardware monster back in the speed competition.

In your case, why HTC m8 beats the s5 in a noticable margin? I think the screen latency difference (about 0.06 second) does add some help. However, the major cause to me is the TW vs Sense. As we know, Sense (from m7) is always very close to the stock android in the UI speed and this is the area where the TW always gets criticism.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ave666:
Yeah I agree with your opinion. I've used 5S before. I got a real bad lag when I installed many apps. I only used it for a week before switching to the s5 because I am not familiar with the ios. For me ios over crowded with apps at home screen

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BTW, did you notice or bother with the ms lag in real life? It's can't be compare with pentium 4 vs core2duo
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SolarTrans:
Well, I'd like to emphasize that with the iOS 7.1 update, animations are a ton faster. That makes the whole phone significantly more smooth to use. I had a Nexus 5, and with the Nexus on ART, and they traded blows when opening apps but the iPhone was always faster in web browsing.

The S5's panel response time is 0.01ms, and it's touch latency is 91ms. The panel response time is really negligible when comparing perceived lag, as it's so small.

Yes, TouchWiz has a little more lag than Sense, but the lag I experienced was definitely touch lag (I noticed it when scrolling and tapping on apps).
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dandroid13:
I don't think "heavy skinned TW OS" makes sense, manly because it isn't a skin, and secondly it itsn't that heavy...
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barondebxl:
The 5s is LIGHTNING fast in web browsing. Some pages load as soon as you press go literally.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ave666:
yeah. i think so. it's more integrated with os itself.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SolarTrans:
^This. Even with auto-web load on Chrome for Android, it's like iOS just preloads every link on the page XD.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eyecon82:
I am on my third s5

first one had a huge dent in the camera bezel

second one had flash/Heart rate monitor bezel completely lop-sided with dust in it

third one has a huge chunk of plastic missing out of the charger flap

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wth is happening with samsung QA??
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SolarTrans:
Wow I haven't head of anyone having that many QC problems with their S5s. What country are you in?
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eyecon82:
im in america....phone built in china
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SolarTrans:
Huh wow. I was thinking that if you were in another country buying an unpopular model number there would be more problems...

But that's kinda outrageous. What retailer are you buying from?
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eyecon82:
sprint...but there are issues all over the place if you look...like misaligned displays....the charger flap falling off, scratched up bezels, display glass sticking up from the edges, etc
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dandroid13:
No issues here, bought mine today.

Enviado do meu Galaxy S5
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barondebxl:
How you like it man?
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dandroid13:
It's great, I'm in love with this bigger and brighter screen! Everything's fast and fluid, the new flat TW looks amazing with this screen! The back cover offers a lot more grip, but i still think it'll feel better with a case because it's too slim.

I'd recommend it to anyone, but my opinion may be biased because I only used TW devices since 2011. [emoji14]

Enviado do meu Galaxy S5
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hemsinlee:
i didnt like the s5 too
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ASAB1594:
iam gonna buy s5 ,, but the speaker issue concerned me

any one can confirm the quality and loudness of the speaker ?
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ave666:
U should try display set before buying anything
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] homer285:
Didnt you, derrr neither did the waterboy!
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Szadzik:
Got mine several days ago and already feel happy about upgrading from S4. I was a bit underwhelmed with initial reports, but looking at the features added I am happy with the upgrade. The only things I do not like is the missing lockscreen widgets and quick glance being just a normal unlock screen and not the notification one from S4.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dragon135:
Well next time do not conplained about 'bloat' sw feature. Some people actually use it. It is actually a plus that samsung is packing galaxy with lots of software feature which u can turn of if not needed. Other company phone maybe faster because they don't have this feature. Even the definition of faster is a few milisecond difference. The problem is this other phone is lack of feature and boring.

This is what we got now because we complained last year, they now remove some feature to make phone 'faster' with less feature. I think it is also because we complain about free space of 8GB in S4.

Sent from GT-I9500
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I got mine yesterday and I like it but its laggy compared to my M8. Samsung really need a better software team, S4 was the same. Great otherwise.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ASAB1594:
it's not available in my town :(
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kthz:
I also upgraded from S4 (and from S3 and from all before..) and i really miss what was making Galaxy S series special : their features, or what others were calling "gimmicks" whereas they were useful once you were using them :

Some great stuff like quick glance, take a call on loudspeaker while sliding your hand over the phone, take a call with your voice, etc... I already wrote an email to samsung to suggest them to put those useful features back into a next firmware but i was kindly replied that "S5 doesn't have those functions".

dragon135 is totally right, i had a colleague who had a S4 last year and after reading an article about "how to get his phone faster while disabling all functions".. I told him, "just buy a nexus if you disable everything to look like a blend phone".

What Samsung should have done since S4 would have to stop being picky on internal storage and give their flagship 32gb instead of 16 basically, then they could have satisfied everyone. Even today, you can't find any S5 32gb whereas nand storage has never been so cheap.

They removed too many features also for discutable reasons i think, now we can say that's a big mistake from Samsung, they were evolving until S4. S5 is great on hardware part.. No so now on software part.

"Lags" that people were saying / exagerating, were seen mostly on S3 due to its 1gb ram. I had none on my S4 thanks to its 2gb. The only "delays" you can see, even today, are on opening full contacts/call logs and sms. But this can be seen on many phones, it may be due to threads handling.

Frankly if i could have tried S5 for a few hours before trading my S4 for it, i wouldn't have made the jump. But it wasn't the policy in stores near my house. And my S4's screen was damaged so i was eager to change it.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RCJ89:
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Sorry for the late reply, not sure but its really good at the pronunciations and it is really clear.

Such a useful feature though, really missed it from the old symbian nokias
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Szadzik:
Why exactly did you quote me here? Do you remember me complaining anywhere about S4 having too many features? I certainly did not complain as I always prefer to have the option of having something or turning it of than not having it at all.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noideaforusername:
You can get it by going to call settings->Answering and Ending Calls options and check "Voice control" and "Waving hand over device" :good:

I also miss quick glance, but apart from that every single feature from the S4 is present in the S5. And the useless apps (for me of course) that now can be downloaded through Samsung app store.

I am still searching through the device for the quick glance setting (I still think it is there but hiding somewhere :silly:) and ill let you know if I find it :good:

Edit: Found something called Air Wake another accessibility settings, but it simply like tapping on the home or power buttons.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] horiakyys:
Quick glance is still there
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noideaforusername:
Where? :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] horiakyys:
Quick Glance feature. Go to "Settings > My device > Motions and gestures > Air gesture > Quick glance.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simacca:
Not on my phone it's not :(
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] horiakyys:
Go to Settings > Accessibility > Dexterity and interaction. It's called "Air wake up". Turn it on. Ignore the previous post, I made a mistake
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noideaforusername:
This is only on the S4. On the S5 there isn't any "Air Gesture" settings under motions and gestures.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kthz:
I only quoted you for quick glance feature missing :) I was more generally speaking in my posts, i'm also among those who think, it's best to have options to select than none at all.

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Thanks for spotting this option. It doesn't worth quick glance tho. But it allowed me to uninstall proximity actions at least.

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noideaforusername : you made my phone better with your lurking :)

Not only apps but some camera modes and effects need to be downloaded from Samsung apps too, nice modes who were by defaut on S4 like picture and sound or sport modes.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beefheart:
To be honest, unless the Note 4 blows me away I'm probably going to go for a Sony for my next phone, they have really come on leaps and bounds in the last couple of years. I'm pretty much Samsunged out having had Samsung handsets now for nearly 4 years. And add the Knox warranty issue to that (I can't live without root) and I can't see myself sticking with the big S beyond my S4.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Michael_P:
From the front it looks fine and all other angles don't matter because every phone I have, had or will ever have will have a case.

So really all that matters to me is what happens on the screen and all the components being good enough quality to run as fast and reliably as possible which it does do well and beats everything around right now.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andymihail:
Well, my friend, you made a good point and I know you have been quite active on S4 forum. I got my S5 day one at a Samsung store the morning they launched it in my country.

My dream phone would be a pure android one, like nexus, but with a removable battery, external Sd and a good camera.

Regarding knox, I just hope to stay away from trouble and not need the warranty, and I still think that this kind of security should have been on a niche market for enterprise only.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qipengart:
I just used my phone upgrade for an iPad Air so I will have to wait until I get a new phone in 1-2 years?
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muhamet:
Yep waiting for lg g3.Samy is kills galaxy legend whit knox.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barondebxl:
I got my S5 yesterday and at first I was not impressed with it besides the camera ( The pictures are so good its not even funny) but now I love this thing. Perfect size display, such a beautiful one too. Colors, white, brightness being able to go super dim and also very bright.

Its light, battery life seems to be insane! I have been killing the phone since 9 am and I am sitting at 72%.

Love toolbox, even better than multi window. Phone is honestly fast, yes its not as fast as the M8 but unless you constantly compare them side by side you'll never know. I don't see myself being bored with this device plus the roms. I absolutely love the S5.

With that being said I am still waiting for the G3 and I still wanna try the M8. I'll give it a shot next week but regardless I love the S5. I'm just a phone junky ;)
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] p0tent:
Love the S5... don't even mind the plastic. Unreal camera and amazing battery life too.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barondebxl:
Seriously the camera is ridiculously good. I think it's better than the 5s camera.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neurodave:
I have had a few Galaxy devices and I have never really been impressed. Needless to say, not a lot coming out nowadays impresses me anyway. The iPhone 5S and HTC One M8 are nice because of their build quality, and the HTC has incredible sound, but that's about as far as it goes with mobile devices. Now that I traded in my iPhone 5S (temporarily) for a Galaxy S5, it's simply just become a phone I can play with all the time in terms of ROMs and tweaks than anything else. I think the build of the Galaxy line feels cheap and the overall UI feels a bit clunky. I am happy to see that they are no longer using gimmick features to promote their phones (coughS4cough) but it's still not my cup of tea. The camera is great....in the day. In slightly more dim environments it lags and dulls out colors. My iPhone, albeit not the best camera around, took pictures in a fraction of a second and they always looked clear. It still stunk in extremely low light areas, but it held up otherwise. I can't even take a picture of my dog in my house at night because I have to sit there and wait 5 seconds for the S5 to process what's happening. The OS itself after some debloating is fine, but still feels clunky in apps like messaging and the browser. Hangouts has no on screen notifications, but messages does. The list goes on and on for me. Am I happy with it? For the most part, yes. It's something new for me and after rooting it makes it fun. But I won't last more than a few months with it.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eyecon82:
The m8 has a plastic camera lens. They cheaped out on that and now people have a ton of scratches on the lens

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[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xda23:
That sucks...

Sent from my SM-G900T
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] claud0902:
Really? I did not expect the camera s5 would suffer in the night time in house environment. The auto focus really has to hang for about 5 secs to be ready? I already hate my nexus 5 so much on the inability to quickly snapshot objects in low light environment, was expecting the s5 to perform much better in this area as according to the review from anandtech, the s5 is one of the fastest snapshot phone in the market... maybe only in acceptable lighting conditions?
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slind:
The S5 camera is just complete garbage (sorry!) compared to the N5 in lowlight situations. I admit that the N5 is not really my first choice to capture quick shots, but it's overall camera performance is completely underrated. It's slow in low light, but with HDR+ it's really doing well in terms of image quality, even better than the One M8 thanks to the OIS.

The S5's capture speed is awesome, but autofocus and capture speed in bad lighting are as bad as on the N5, only image quality is worse.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sonyfan12:
Lack of OIS

Display modulation at medium and low brightness

Unnecessary display modes (Dynamic and Standard). These modes are as bone that samsung threw for some reviewers and haters. Benefit from them is no, only cons

106-107% SRGB in Cinema and Pro. Photo Mode. Need 100%. All image are designed for SRGB standard, and enhanced range is color distortion, red hues (at normal color temperature) and oversaturation.

Plastic Body

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2746925
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skrapi:
I was excisted to get it. Ive had the s1 to the s4 and now the s5.

My s5 was stupidly fast and responsive. Now aftrmer using it. Things have slown right down. It jutters time to time really badly (mainly keyboard), camera and gallery takes ages to open up. I never had this problem on any other galaxy device. I have just updated through kies. So hopefully the lag is sorted but the camera and gallery is still slow.