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[Galaxy S 4 General] chrisknife:
As for the new changes, the Android 4.4.2 adds minor UI changes. One of the most noticeable is the use of KitKat style white status bar icons instead of multi-colour icons, which is available for all Samsung's devices. In terms of performance, the update gives a boost to the smartphone while increasing the benchmark scores. The keyboard layout has been improved for use in landscape mode, making gesture typing faster as well as easier.

The update also brings improvements for the lockscreen by adding camera shortcut on the lockscreen for quick access. Also, the album art now displays in full screen while playing music.

Other core Android 4.4.2 changes includes wireless printing, new emojis support, choice between stock messaging app and Hangouts for SMS and MMS and options for charging default launchers under settings.
[Galaxy S 4 General] abdo jouma:
thanks man you made my day:D

Sent to hit THANKS for iT!!!!!;)
[Galaxy S 4 General] SilencerRemix:
I agree the Galaxy S5 is a huge disappointment. A lazy design is the best thing that they can come up with. Plus Samsung still hasn't learn from the bloat that they have in their devices. What a joke!

On another note I will keeping my S4 for another year or so.
[Galaxy S 4 General] abdo jouma:
another guy who will keep s4:D

Sent to hit THANKS for iT!!!!!;)
[Galaxy S 4 General] Logicboard:
Even if a "premium" model is coming im moving to another brand, being oppo, sony or lg. Ive been seeing a downward trend in terms for development for the galaxy s line of phones. Besides knox, poorly optimized software,increasingly closed OS are the main reasons i will NO longer use or buy a samsung device.

sent from my GT- I9505
[Galaxy S 4 General] AmmVid:
Well I have the I9500 (Exynos) model and developer support has been slim compared to other phones because of Samsung. We're thankful for any Dev we can get, and I think we have the best. But for my next phone I think I will get a Nexus. Price+Dev support+updates+speed makes for an amazing phone. Although I hear it will die :(
[Galaxy S 4 General] Dean-xXx:
I decided that i will keep my s4 for this year! There is no point in upgrading to s5.

Personally i consider s5 uglier than s4, and wayyy bigger size for just 0.1inch bigger screen, i think it's ridiculous.

I will wait to see 2015's flagships and i will choose one then. I will consider others like HTC or Sony if Samsung doesn't wake up and f@cks up again.
[Galaxy S 4 General] zenosteam:
for the moment i keep my i9500 for now ,iam so disappointed from extremely poor developing for this phone "because of Samsung " i had all the Samsung series 1,2,3,4 And that will be the last one .my next favourite "Sony Xperia Z2 or lg g3 pro" by by sam
[Galaxy S 4 General] Ausboy 2011:
Z2 good phone I think htc will surprise us this year :D

Sent from my dominationed S4
[Galaxy S 4 General] Yamislayer:
quote.. the samsung galaxy s5 is a not innovative.. i'm very disappointed
[Galaxy S 4 General] EclipseX:
I will not buy S5, but lg g3 :( lol
[Galaxy S 4 General] jj03:
Keeping my s4. No upgrade for me. Dunno what I will have next..no Lg for sure. Defo not a windows phone, not sure about sony...meh. might go for a oppo.
[Galaxy S 4 General] emilcioran99:
This year I'll staying with Samsung and S4 because I consider that S5 is a broother of S4 and I think that not worth the financial effort.

Off topic, sadly is that I see that Google, Samsung, HTC and others decided without asking us that in our phones and future phones there will be increasingly less privacy.

In this moment there are system apks or preinstalled non system apks, that send many things from phone to accounts in social networks without asking us and we are without a possibility to disable those services, and this without uninstall the whole respective application.

Additional, there are a lot of posts here on the forum, where our colleagues tell us about their discussions on chat or telephone with the people at official Samsung services and where the service guys says that they see on service PC stuff inside the user phone, stuff that should not be seen by the service guys on the service PC...

There are many people here (I am one of them) which discovered that after an official Samsung Kies update (from 4.2 to 4.3) from sd card are missing a whole lot of system or non system related apks, who were on sd card before update...

Not to mention about knox sh...t...

And so on...

Personally I consider that the future for Android is... gray rather than green and increasingly less AOpenSP.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Bartik168:
I waited for S5, but nothing special didn't appear, so probably my next phone will be from Nexus family.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Mittaa:
Absolutely stay with S4 ... only thing worth mentioning about S5 is camera :rolleyes:

But if my S4 should unexpected break down I honestly don't know if I would buy S4 or S5 :confused:
[Galaxy S 4 General] nikzDHD:
Samsung are going for the enterprise market with KNOX it's a big market to gain if they can with the demise of Blackberry.

You have to remember majority of smart phone users DO NOT root etc so for them KNOX is not an issue as it offers the 2 layer protection for security for normal users this may be enticing.

For us those who root yes knox is a damn right pain but what can we do? Nothing much as it's tied in the bootloader.

The S5 over the S4 isn't a big increment but I'm sure it's not targeted to those already with an S4.

It has an improved camera with ISOCELL with super quick auto focus and live HDR, it's aimed for the fitness type with the heart rate sensor, packs a brighter screen, bigger battery, slightly bigger screen, finger print scanner, retains the removable battery, retains the microSD slot, retains the IR blaster. When you look at it like that it improves on the S4 and compared to other phones it does pack more hardware gimmicks say compared to the Nexus.

So yes for those who don't care for rooting or have an older device the S5 is an appealing device.
[Galaxy S 4 General] windozeanti:
Samsung wants to maximize their profits and leave the best stuff for their Note 4. S4 is my last Samsung. :p
[Galaxy S 4 General] abdo jouma:
all say that. you will return:p

Sent to hit THANKS for iT!!!!!;)
[Galaxy S 4 General] Schikkadellic:
no i am not! I love my Galaxy S4...works like charm, no reason to upgrade to s5.;)
[Galaxy S 4 General] abdo jouma:
yes it is. stay with it until note 4 or galaxy f ;)

Sent to hit THANKS for iT!!!!!;)
[Galaxy S 4 General] ballsofsteel:
I don't really see how they would release a galaxy F range and ditch the S. The S series have been the flagship (well at least until the S4) of the entire Samsung lineup.

But equally I don't get why they are crippling the S series either. In the past they have blotched the implementation of the S3 (1 GB ram was a mistake) and now the S5 (the only flagship at mwc without 3 GB RAM...lol)

Seems like the note series are what Samsung are wholeheartedly trying to push as the flagship.
[Galaxy S 4 General] bluenim:
Does really matters the 3gb of ram? I have 2 gb and always have like 1gb free... with the screen its the same 1080p is more than enough. I think they should focus on the battery... why you would want a super device where you can do 1000 things but with a crappy battery life? I expected the s5 to have a MINIUM 3200 battery.
[Galaxy S 4 General] abdo jouma:
yes man we must have min.3gb ram and better battery and ui and everything:p

Sent to hit THANKS for iT!!!!!;)
[Galaxy S 4 General] deakodude:
Only just got my S4 came from HTC One X and can say it feels so fresh compared to the One X.
[Galaxy S 4 General] joaobarroso:
I stay with my S4, it still a fantastic phone, no reason to change. When this one brokes maybe i change for windows phone.

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[Galaxy S 4 General] abdo jouma:
windows:sly:

Sent to hit THANKS for iT!!!!!;)
[Galaxy S 4 General] ballsofsteel:
That's what everyone said when the Galaxy S2 was the first to pioneer 1GB ram. Will we need 1GB ram Lolz? we will never use it all up hahahha!

Now all 1GB ram devices are basically useless at multitasking until kitkat (look no further than galaxy S3, htc one x, and etc.)

Developers have to develop their apps knowing the hardware limitations of devices. Thus they cannot build full fledged apps with such ram constraints. Until Android can run like Windows (i.e. Hold every app in memory unless I explicitly close it), you can never have more ram.
[Galaxy S 4 General] hella356:
Despite some disappointing issues (for me: no RAM increase, extra size & weight considering only a tiny increase in screen, apparently no Wolfson DAC) the S5 in most respects is undoubtedly better than the S4. Faster CPU, better camera, USB3, water resistance, etc. Saying "it sucks" makes no sense. That said, it isn't enough of an upgrade over the S4 for me to upgrade. The S3 was clearly better than my old S2, but wasn't enough for me to upgrade, either.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Toss3:
But why choose the S5 when the Z2 is better?
[Galaxy S 4 General] sergini:
I will definitely leave my S4, but not because of the S5, I just can't stand how Samsung is treating his "advanced" user with the Knox ****. It's totally disrespectful and a shot in their own feet. Samsung was my favorite brand for long time (u can see it in my signature) but now it's over.

I'm done with Samsung, I'm done with Knox.

Maybe I'll go to nexus 5, can't see many more options if I don't want to spend a ridiculous amount of money.
[Galaxy S 4 General] fharce:
Had all four galaxyes from the begining and the s4 was the worst of all. And then knox bulls***. Sold it and bought a nexus 5. Now im happy. Never again a samsung.
[Galaxy S 4 General] abdo jouma:
that is why s5 and not note 3 or z2

Sent to hit THANKS for iT!!!!!;)
[Galaxy S 4 General] POLO_i780:
A lot of people in this thread seem to have already used the Galaxy S5, I mean, with comments like "The GS5 sucks" , "GS5 is a joke" I assume you've had a good day or two with the GS5, so fellas, give us some reviews on Camera (your own samples), Performance (give us some benchmark screenshots of your S5), also please let us know how's the MIMO WiFi is, thanks!

I'll have to reserve my judgement until I have actually used it, my logic says to wait until I've had it in my hand, but hey, what do I know. :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] N10AP:
I`ll never have another Samsung. Not because it is a rubbish phone, but because of their very poor customer service. I had a cracked screen due to swollen battery and I had to replace it out of my own pocket, despite independent engineers reports, etc etc...

And Sony`s seem a lot better built.

Definitely a member of the Z family for me as soon as I can find some poor sod to sell this S4 to. Unfair, maybe. I do actually like my S4. I like the screen, the call quality and the sheer development for it. But when Samsung puts you up sh*t creek through no fault of your own, it tends to leave a sour taste.

This was the only phone I`ve ever had problems with. Indeed I hardly use my phones.

I had an (spit) iPhone 3GS - No problems besides being locked inside the North Korea that is Apple...

HTC Sensation - No problem at all (Juoponutbear S-off) ;)

Nexus 4 - F*cking loved it - only sold as my contract was coming up for renewal

i9505 - Gone horribly wrong. All phones can develop faults at any time, but it is how you are treated when these faults occur by the OEM`s

So, yes. It is time for me to part with my S4 before it eventually becomes worthless (Or at least worth a pittance)
[Galaxy S 4 General] hella356:
That's a matter of opinion, of course, especially if someone hasn't used both. The Z2 looks like an excellent phone and gives tough competition to the S5, no doubt. However, one of the most important features (to me) in a smartphone is a removable battery, which gives the S5 a BIG edge (again, to ME). I travel a lot for work, and having extra batteries on-hand is far better than using external battery packs, in my opinion, and far more critical than 2GB vs 3GB of RAM. So, if I were to choose between the S5 and Z2, I have little doubt I'd go with the S5. Of course, many people would choose the Z2 for their own, equally valid reasons, and more power to them. And you! :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] dandroid13:
Knox, theft of service, root, "suddenly my phone stopped working", whining, it all makes sense. Like other OEMs didn't have their own warranty policies. LOL
[Galaxy S 4 General] abdo jouma:
"knox" without this word Samsung is better:p

Sent to hit THANKS for iT!!!!!;)
[Galaxy S 4 General] dandroid13:
Really? Why?

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[Galaxy S 4 General] Dean-xXx:
Quite bigger than s4 with just 0.1" screen difference? Extra weight? This alone is enough to skip the s5, the extra size is just ridiculous.

We all seen pictures side by side with s4 and s5 and details so is no need to have them both in hand to see these differences.
[Galaxy S 4 General] dandroid13:
If it was bigger then they would have called it Galaxy Note 3 Mini. :p

Seriously, the amount of whining and sad excuses is ridiculous.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Dean-xXx:
What excuses? This is my personal opinion, the extra size , extra weight and thicker bezel is a completely turn off. 0.1" bigger screen is not an excuse for extra size. And if you look at the picture below, i think it could be a note 3 mini easily by its size.
[Galaxy S 4 General] ballsofsteel:
How is this whining and making up excuses? The Galaxy S4 crammed a display 0.2 inches larger than the S3 and yet the S4 was physically smaller than the S3. Now the Galaxy S5 extended both the bezel and the screen which is pitiful (why bother extending screen size then?)

2GB ram... Good luck with that in 2014.

Heart rate sensor? Really? I'd even argue that the air gesture and air view introduced in the S4 are more useful than this (though still pretty garbage). Third party accessories are likely to be far more accurate and useful compared to a sensor at the back of the phone.
[Galaxy S 4 General] dandroid13:
It's larger because it has IP67 specification, thin bezels + large screen = fragile device... So an user posted on the S5 forum that even with 3GB of RAM his Note 3 kills background apps. I have yet to see a full use of 3GB, unless you have some power intensive app running (a desktop-like application) you probably never need it.

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[Galaxy S 4 General] ntnlzr:
i'll not buy s5 no more samsung device for me, they can't add knox without my permission into an upgrade, no more stupid bloatware, i'll buy the next nexus phone when it'll be released.
[Galaxy S 4 General] ipharus:
I dont like samsungs policies, but I want a phone with amoled and sdcard slot. That were the reasons I got the s4 so likely i'll have to stick with sammy in the future if I want to keep those features.
[Galaxy S 4 General] rafacla:
Well, for the time being I'd not buy a sammy, S5 is just too expensive for what it is now.

It's not a bad phone at all, but it isn't he best neither and we are talking about a phone that will be released just next month. Also the big amount of sammy bloatware and the knox thing aren't making it easier.

So, who knows about S6?

With the current generation I'm not willing to buy anyother phone, my S4 is good enough to compete with every single smartphone today in the market...

Maybe I'd get a windows phone as an spare one, it'd be fun I guess.
[Galaxy S 4 General] miguelonch10:
rafacla I think like you. I always want a new phone, but uf you think about it, what are you going to do with a SGS5 that you can not do with a SGS4? Have a better cam? For a normal use (not developers, not for computer works...) I have phone for many years... Hahaha

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[Galaxy S 4 General] ballsofsteel:
Thank you very much for proving my point that the S5 is going to be lagging behind without 3GB ram (imagine the S4, with more bloat and same ram!) . For your information, everyone said that it is impossible to use up 1GB of ram when the S2 introduced it in 2011. Look at how garbage 1GB devices are today.
[Galaxy S 4 General] dandroid13:
More bloat? Really? This shows that you don't know what you're talking about.
[Galaxy S 4 General] ballsofsteel:
Galaxy S4 and S5 are both on Android 4.4 so they are on a level playing field as far as the underlying OS is concerned. You can argue that the S5 has more usable space than the S4, but the core services from the S4 will still remain (plus new ones from S5) so more RAM will be chewed away. And in the context of the entire Android flagship space, there might be few optimizations here and there on the S5, but nothing will save it from having a full gig of RAM less than its competitors (AND Samsung's own competitor, the Note 3, hahaha)

S5 is just a joke with 2 GB RAM.
[Galaxy S 4 General] dandroid13:
So tell me why do I need 3GB of RAM. And no, there's less bloat. In are the two Gear companion apps but Group Play, Optical Reader, Samsung Hub, Samsung Link, Samsung Wallet and Story Album are out.
[Galaxy S 4 General] miguelonch10:
I couldn't resume better de question, ballsofsteel. I cam't imagine what could I do with SGS5 that I cannot do with my GS4

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[Galaxy S 4 General] ballsofsteel:
Fine, if you think 2GB RAM is fine, so be it. That's what everyone said when the Galaxy S2 introduced 1 GB RAM to the market. I'm not going to argue with you if you refuse to move into the future.

[MENTION=472028]miguelon[/MENTION]ch: You cannot dunk your phone into the water, read your heart rate or scan your finger. Everything else you can probably do, albeit being slightly slower.
[Galaxy S 4 General] dandroid13:
I asked you something and you didn't bother to answer me, instead you came with the same argument, fine then...
[Galaxy S 4 General] Bodisson:
Only thing I miss in my SGS4 is FM radio.

Is SGS5 giving me that? No? Oh, well... ;)
[Galaxy S 4 General] Mittaa:
IMO ....

FM: seldom used it on my old S2, and do not miss it on my S4

Heard Rate: this have been on marked for years https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=si.modula.android.instantheartrate

Fingerprint scanner: GO AWAY !!!

Camera is the only real improvement worth talking about :good:
[Galaxy S 4 General] gsmyth:
Agree with this, not really feeling any envy/upgrade pangs for the S5. I'm sure its a great phone, its certainly not 'bad', I'm just really happy with my S4. Its still lighter and slimmer and I don't think it will be 'beaten' in that respect (not sure I would want it to be as it is ridiculously thin and light). Think they improved the back cover a bit, ok its not metal but it appears to be grippier, but no biggie as there are tonnes of cases for the S4. Its pretty much the same screen, albeit .1 of an inch bigger, but that means you loose a small amount of pixel density (but again probably not even noticable). The camera is improved slightly (not a 20MP camera), but again I find the quality of the S4 is fantastic. I use TuneIn app for when I want to listen to radio, you get pretty much every station available rather than just the local/regional ones via FM. It would be nice to get the UI refresh like the S5 and will be interesting to see how this pans out.
[Galaxy S 4 General] dandroid13:
The camera is completely new, uses a new technology called ISOCELL. Also, it has that Lucid battery saving tech, it's a nice upgrade overall.
[Galaxy S 4 General] N10AP:
3 Words...

S5... Why bother?
[Galaxy S 4 General] gsmyth:
True about the camera, as its not all about megapixels and this new tech seems to enhance the low light performance which is one area that the S4 camera isn't great. The HTC One is supposed to perform better in this area, but at the cost of sacrificing pixels. The battery tech will be interesting to see how it translates for everyday use as its another area that really needs improvement for smartphones in general. They've definitely worked on refining a lot of the main features instead of adding loads more brand new features, although they did go down the fingerprint scanner route. I still have another year and a half on my contract so it will be a while until I'm actually due an upgrade, but thankfully I'm content with my S4 for now.
[Galaxy S 4 General] dandroid13:
You should check this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2662379
[Galaxy S 4 General] gsmyth:
Cheers, I love the quality of S4 camera and the HD video is great, so the S5 camera will be a belter with further improvements.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Jawomo:
Still like my S4, camera is one of the best of its kind. Better then competition...

Also screen and size is nice, replacable battery.. great phone.
[Galaxy S 4 General] testadeferro:
Battery is good for you?

I never get close my S3 in screen time! I got easy 5 or even 6 hours screentime with s3 with s4 never get close five (max 4.30).

I own all S devices aside the original I9000 and to be honest my favourite S is my old S2. This is a real Galaxy phone! Even now it runs everything.

The other S phones 3 and 4 for me are hardware updates and camera updates. For video my S2 performs like the other S phones.

So for me doesn´t make sense to go ahead with the S5, instead its time for go elsewhere. Maybe LG, they re making great things.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Jawomo:
I have no problem with battery. but i have everything disabled, which i dont use.

Maybe its also because i have a 2900mah battery. Has a little more power then stock.
[Galaxy S 4 General] hotheabilly:
All of your S5 gimmicks will gone if you using aftermarket ROM. With standard android camera, isocell 16mpx is quite useless. Heartbeat sensor maybe not going there. Goodluck with fingerscanner libs and drivers. Or stay with samsung bloat. S5 is not worth for an upgrade, S4 is enough till mid-year or second quarter of the year maybe.

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[Galaxy S 4 General] abdo jouma:
Congratz. To me I got new black galaxy s4:D
[Galaxy S 4 General] dandroid13:
But getting a Galaxy just to run AOSP makes no sense after all...

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[Galaxy S 4 General] iede:
totally agree with this.

I bought my Galaxy because I love samsung's features and touchwiz (though not all of them).

If I want to run AOSP I will buy Nexus instead. It's waste of money if buying Galaxy for AOSP :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] abdo jouma:
That was exactly reason for me when I bought the s4.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Jonny:
Ok I'm going to close this thread as it serves no real purpose it seems except as a spleen venting thread for users to rant against Samsung and blah blah. Ranting on XDA will not make Samsung do anything, its better to type them an email, then they might actually take notice of what the developer community wants.

Thread closed.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] walter2085:
Hi guys

I'm very new to this and love the Note3. Can anyone help me and direct me to the post on how to root my Note3 please.

I got

AP:N9005XXUDMJ6

CP:N9005XXUDMJ4

CSC:N9005VFGDMJ1

it is running on 4.3 (UK, Vodafone network) If possible would like to upgrade to kitkat as well. Thank you very very much in advance for any help i can get. As I said I'm a newbie and only now start to learn.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcespi2005:
Correct me someone if I'm wrong...

Download mobile terminal and try to exec the command

0_a96@hlte:/ $ getprop ro.bootloader

N9005XXUBMJ1

u0_a96@hlte:/ $

If you are on MJ1 or previous bootloader you can go and use Root de la Vega method using any ROM admitted.

Thread is on developing section

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