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[Galaxy Tab S General] cappa662:
iOS is a much better OS than Samsung's Android. Let's be honest, the software really lags. But I'm buying the specs, and putting in CM. So with CM, and the specs... it works very well for me. No complaints. Depends on what kind of user you are and what you plan on doing with the tablet. I like a customized ROM, great battery for watching movies and surf the web and do very little gaming... Tab S 10.5 is perfect for me.

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This guy's response is dead on. :good::good::good::good::good::good:
[Galaxy Tab S General] schoofi:
Running CM11 and I have nothing to complain. Just onhe thing annoys me, the hardware button on the bottom (in landscape). I would like to press iut with my thumb, but that's too far away. Especially when I am browsing lying in bed, pad on my chest/belly.
[Galaxy Tab S General] SilentHIll17:
I have a tab s 8.4 LTE Exynos for about a month now.

Hardware build is fine but could be better. Tablet is very delicate, you have to be careful with it. Feeling in the hand is great, especially the soft back.

Display is absolutely amazing, but you already know that. Really bright, it can also go insanely dark if you want, and sharp as a knife. Colors can punch your face in, or be more natural, depending which mode you want and choose. One thing is for sure, expect screen orgasm all day every day with tab s :D

Software is mixed bag. There are great software additions for productivity etc but the best option is to put different launcher on it (Nova is great, but I found that smart launcher works even better).

Performance is good but with a different launcher it becomes much better. You have to keep in mind, this display has an insane number of pixels, runs what is probably the most heaviest android skin in existence (TouchWiz), and has note 3 procesor inside. With all this in mind, I was actually surprised with the performance, with multitasking and games as well.

Games run perfectly with some lag here and there on more demanding titles. I love how you can play GTA:San Andreas for example, then go multitask do a ton of other things, and then just hop back to GTA and it will not reload the game, you can just continue playing where you left of.

Speaker is good, lacks more bass, but loud and clear, I have no problem with it.

Battery is good, about 7h average of screen time. I use it heavily with 50% brightness, reading articles, browsing, games and a ton of movies and youtube. With power saving mode, or if you root the tablet and debloat you can go even further with battery.

Also I'm not rooted, yet.

Should you buy this tablet? For me, answer is yes. Kudos to all other great tablets out there, but I wouldn't trade this display for anything in the world.
[Galaxy Tab S General] GuestK00447:
very unsatisfied

Very unsatisfied. Would return immediately if possible . The screen is just too large and too wide, also the text is very small, and color temperature should be warmer .

Also not possible to hold it in one hand .

Very very unstasfied for reading and browsing . Very bad buy for me .

For watching movies it would be OK i guess .
[Galaxy Tab S General] kevman8396:
I am using the 8.4 Wifi Tab S. I have it rooted and debloated a large number of system apps by using Titanium Backup. Using a stock ROM with Nova Launcher makes this thing fly. Also using CM11's latest build from 12/2/14 and everything is working fine so far. I highly recommend using Nova Launcher even if you are not rooted.
[Galaxy Tab S General] Svashtar:
Nothing wrong with the tablet, but with your decision to buy it.

So you are the one to blame, not the tablet.

Buy phone for elderly. It has a small screen with big fonts. Perfect. :o

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I have a tablet for one day, so I can't really post a long experience essay, yet, but so far i am totally impressed and love it from the inside out.

From software perspective it is Android as android (tried at least hundred custom roms in last 4 years or so, from phones to tablets), nothing to blow my mind there. I have to mention i came to TabS from Asus Infinity and it is like i am discovering a whole new world. TabS really is that better. The one thing that ruined the Asus tablet, which was perfectly fine from specs perspective, was the cheap internal storage, which was so slow that sometimes I had to wait more than 30s or a minute for screen orientation to change. I won't go into details, but it was a 700€ tablet which i almost threw into the wall because of all the frustration it caused me. So, maybe i am not looking objectively here, but TabS is faaaar superior.

There are some hiccups now and then, but i don't really think it is due to Samsung apps or HW.

From experience i think it is just the android that has problems. CM is just so heavily tweaked to overcome it, but put AOSP rom on the device, and i bet after few days you'll get the same problems as with any vendor built roms. Not as much, but still. I could be wrong though.

Anyway, from a day of playing with the tablet, i am impressed.

It is responsive, the screen is gorgeous and currently there is nothing to complain about.

I did root it, but didn't debloat it yet, because i don't see a reason to do it, yet.

If it comes to that, there are still other options - like CM and so on.

So far, very happy.
[Galaxy Tab S General] spacemanvt:
I recieved mine yesterday and a couple of quick thoughts:

-Screen is incredible, my <480P videos look terrible and pixelated almost because the screen is too good. Not the screens fault.

- TouchWiz is annoying and crappy. Nova Launcher helps but i hate the pull down menu. I wish CM offically supported this but it looks like you XDA guys <3 have done a solid job porting CM11 over. If i decide to keep it , I will root and flash CM on here.

-Alot of cool free gifts with the tab, NY Times. Marvel, etc.

-Fingerprint scanner is not bad. Alittle bit finicky though.

-love the MicroSD Card,

-the back is a bit slimy and annoying to hold up.

-Seems like there is some lag switching between apps. I wish this had a better CPU.

All in all, I am unsure what to do. I like the tablet but I think a N9 would be great also. I have 2 weeks to decide, if I see a good deal on a N9 I might switch to that. I would be worried in a year or so the Tab S will be quite laggy...

thoughts?
[Galaxy Tab S General] GuestK00447:
This cursed tablet is causing me depressions . It is so cold and big, not cozy and warm . It is the devils work . Unusable in landscape and even more in portrait . I warn you !!! Dont buy this piece of crap, buy something smaller with lower resolution what u can hold in one hand .

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But I cannot return it because I bought it from internet from china . I want to change DPI in android so text is larger and even this is not possible . Total unreadable microscopic text . Hate it 1!!!!!!!
[Galaxy Tab S General] GuestK00447:
[IMG="EIZO S1910 vs TAB S 10.5"]https://www.dropbox.com/sc/2biqnw9ujjfe5h3/AAA1aC4VrXcPXeyH5Yy8n3tha/0?dl=1[/IMG]

https://www.dropbox.com/sc/2biqnw9ujjfe5h3/AACRNBe-RzFe4F_qKrqiemy0a

So that you see the difference between my nice EIZO monitor in "text" setting, which is perfect for browsing and office work, I can work non-stop with this monitor.

And the Tab S 10.5 in "Basic" display setting - which is the warmest (but there is not much difference in white temperatuer between the 3 settings).

After 20 minutes of browsing on this tablet my eyes are crying "WTF are u doing to us". Add headache to this and then u know how it is to work with this tablet .

If I would see this comparrison earlier I would not buy, but the reviews are not reviewing this most important stuff as thorough as they should . I BLAME THE REVIEWERS FOR THIS !! may the rot in hell .
[Galaxy Tab S General] starc0m:
I have the SM-T700 and I am happy with my choice. I am a big AMOLED fan and I got exactly what I wanted. The display is crisp and colors are vibrant. The only thing that bugs me is what Touchwiz has attained notoriety for: Stuttering. Occasional and ever so slight, but present. I hope to catch up to this issue by flashing a rooted and debloated stock ROM and another launcher, or maybe CM11/CM12. The device doesn't seem to have performance issues with what I want to use it for (reading, watching YouTube clips and Netflix, playing a game or two, music, and of course tinkering around, when the time is right). It is my first tablet and I don't regret my decision. However, I would not blindly recommend buying this device to anyone I see. It just matched with my preferences, something I would DO recommend checking out to those who have complained here.
[Galaxy Tab S General] bos1:
Have you tried LMT? I prefer to disable the hardware keys and only use LMT with pie on the sides, which puts the controls at my thumbs at all times.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1330150
[Galaxy Tab S General] kchinth:
I have the 8.4 wifi model. I wasn't a big fan of the touchwiz interface, so I installed CM11 and now CM12. I'm much happier with the change. I should have remembered that I hated touchwiz back from my S3 days, but it's easy enough to get rid of.
[Galaxy Tab S General] :
I am now ok with the tablet . I got used to the screen . Occasional lags and stuttering .
[Galaxy Tab S General] Shadowslayer:
internal storage

I've got the s10.5 wifi smt800.

Only just got it and it's really nice.

My only concern is that it comes with 16g internal and 9g is already taken up.

Bought a 64g sd card and moved all my apps and still show 8g+ used. Cleared caches as well. Is it all bloatware? I haven't rooted yet so all is stock.
[Galaxy Tab S General] pankakes:
Cyanogenmod makes it much better, but it still lags here and there. The harder the tablet is working, the worse the input lag gets. I use Xposed Modules to fill in the empty holes from TouchWiz without the bloat. The screen is amaazzziiiinnngg, although I wish I could turn off the artificial sharpening and change the temperature. But those are just nitpicks. It's amazing. Don't listen to me LOL. The speakers are actually decent (on Cyanogenmod at least) and I personally dig the soft touch back. The battery life is good with reasonable brightness, but I always keep the screen above 80% because it's so pretty, and thus take a noticeable hit to the battery life. I still get reasonable time, it's just not that good or impressive. Oh yeah, and even though the GPU isn't top notch, the CPU, NAND flash, and AC WiFi are a completely different story. This thing flies. It turns on in maybe 15 seconds and apps open without a hitch. It can make my HTC One m7 feel slow. Ahhhh, I just wish the GPU didn't suck and developer support was more active, but what can I say.
[Galaxy Tab S General] :
overheating and laggy

Tablet is overheating. Played Sniper 3D for 20 minutes, then graphics artefacts appeared, tablet was really hot under the camera area, app crashed, system rebooted itself.

Also when scrolling websites in the tablet lags - sometimes even 2 seconds .
[Galaxy Tab S General] MarkLI88:
I have had this tablet (32 gig 10.5 inch) for a little over a week, so far I am loving this tablet. I am running completely stock right now and have to say the lag is very minimal for me other than Chrome. For watching video which is mostly what I do with my tablet this device can't be beat the screen is just amazing. I have disabled many of the bloat apps that I will never use and may put Nova Launcher prime on it which I run on my HTC One M8 but for now I am playing around with it just being stock. Battery life for me has been decent, I don't have any hard times but it is better then my last tablet the LG GPad 8.3.
[Galaxy Tab S General] steelbrachen:
I've got the SM-T805 Exynos 5420 10.5 international variant with LTE (Titanium Bronze). This was given to me as a gift and a godsend. I fell in love with it because of the look and the screen, which is the best feature because of SAMOLED and nothing can top that so me being a movie lover, I've got that in the bag already. The design looks and feels premium with the perforated back, I didn't really like the titanium bronze color but it's growing on me as I'd prefer the white one, I like how light and thin the tablet is along with the lit hard buttons. I haven't rooted this nor changed my launcher, I'm basically sticking to what it had and I don't really like touch wiz as it lags naturally with a lot going on in the background but I plan to root soon enough when there's CM for this model. Speakers are kind of weak and I expected better speakers, camera is great in the day but crap at night, WiFi connections are good and very length with distance. My battery life is average, not good nor great as I get around 6-8 hours with mixed usage, WiFi and sync on with low brightness doing a lot of surfing reading and YouTube, I also think it's because I have an LTE one it eats up more. The battery lasts long if I watch movies because amoled saves on black which is really good. I use this as my phone too as I bring it out and to school with not having it so much of a burden due to its lightness. Overall I love this device and I'm happy with it except for a couple or things, I only have the 16gb version, there's no 32gb in my country unfortunately and also it being white would be better, but hey it's a gift so I can't complain. It's a great device that just needs software tweaking, needs root and customization the maximize it's potential, screen is brilliant and just be careful with it.

Sent from my SM-T805
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
I have the 10.5 Lte international version imported from Hong Kong. Love this tablet, screen is amazing, not sure wot the other guys problem with the screen is, but I it looks bang on to me and can stare at it for hours on end no problem.

Lag is minimal, but I bet there's not a device in the world that doesn't suffer lag at some point. Even my HTC m8 with snapdragon 801 suffers lag in certain situations.

I love the style and premium feel of it, I have the bronze titanium and it looks the biz. Defo prefer it to the white which will look dingy in no time. Touch wiz is an aquired taste, can't say I care for it tbh considering my HTC probably has the best skin of any Android OS with sense 6.

Battery lasts a million years, I really can't understand when people complain the battery only lasts 7 or 8 hours. That's pretty impressive to me with continuous use of a large display.

It's easy to hold because it's well balanced and light and I like the fact it doesn't look like a picture frame, by that I mean a huge black surround around the screen. The touch screen is nice and responsive too. The build quality is spot on too.

The only bad is limited internal memory, because of the silly amount samsung decides to take up itself. Mostly negated by the fact it takes a 128gb sd card.

Camera is fine and takes perfectly acceptable pics and vids for a tablet. It's NOT a camera, so anybody that moans and complains about it needs to get a grip and go and buy a camera!

All in all I'm well satisfied with the £337 I paid for it. The other guy moaning about his tablet probably bought a Chinese clone. ;)
[Galaxy Tab S General] JimnT:
Mine's just fine

I have an SMT-805 purchased in Thailand about 5 months ago and I've had zero problems with it. Honestly, I've never noticed and lag to speak of, though my other tablet is an ASUS TF700 and all my Android phones are cheap, so maybe I'm not as sensitive to lag.

I never even bothered to start disabling Samsung's insane bloatware until this morning.
[Galaxy Tab S General] Rage1ofakind:
Loving my tab s 8.4. Use it daily. Love paying games like Clash of Clans on it.

Anyone have cool accessory recommendations for it? I need to buy a Chromecast. But holding up till they have that 20£ price promotion
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
Should of bought the chromecast on black Friday when they were going cheap all over the place. £18 each I got 3 from amazon.
[Galaxy Tab S General] Rage1ofakind:
I did lol. Bought one for my cousin. I had one at that time, but then gave it to my brother as he got a new house so thought he'd need it more. But now I miss it ?
[Galaxy Tab S General] whirl08:
I love my Tab S 8.4 but I think I've got a bad battery as it will drop to 14% once I get down to 45% or so. Planning on replacing the battery.
[Galaxy Tab S General] lynxblaine:
Why not get it fixed under warranty?
[Galaxy Tab S General] stopa10:
I have been reading this forum for a while, before buying my tablet. All of the complains about lags really made me wonder, and at some points I almost went for the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact.

In the end, I bought the SM-T705 anyway, and let me say that this is really the best Android device I have owned so far. I just rooted, debloated using Titanium, and installed Nova and Xposed. One hour in total, and this thing flies.

I can see that Touchwiz can be a pain in the ass, but with very little work you can take care of it, and then the tablet works great.

I hope this helps someone like me to decide.
[Galaxy Tab S General] Akopps:
Overall, the device is great. Everyone knows the pros, so I will get immediately to the cons:

1. Headphone volume range is too low. For some youtube videos, the volume is absurdly low, which is a serious issue for a tablet that has earned a great reputation among media freaks due to its screen. (Solution, you may boost the sound with a third party app)

2. There is no network time sync in wi-fi only model. WTF? In 21st century? Seriously? (Solution: you may get NTP time sync after rooting your device)

3. The fingerprint scanner is really crappy and it will take several attempts to login into your device. It's a serious pain if you use a case or cover that covers some area around the main button. In order to log in, you will have to swipe your finger very thoroughly and carefully, and probably more than once. If it fails something like 5 times, then you take a 20-30 second smoke break as the device stops accepting the login attempts. This aspect of the device works a lot worse than say my dad's iPad Mini 3.

4. The default video player cannot select a non-default language track. This means that if you have a video file with two language tracks, say Russian and English, and Russian is default, then you can't play the English track. Seriously Google? This is in 21st century? (Solution: MX Player may play alternative sound tracks, but you have to install a bunch of codecs to play some media files).

All in all, my Tab S 10.5 does everything I need with the stock 4.4.2 OS and a few third party apps, except for automatic time sync as I haven't rooted my tab S yet. Not bad.
[Galaxy Tab S General] cjw_101:
Just bought one yesterday. I haven't had enbough seat time to comment on battery or lag. I tried a Nexus 9 and it wasn't very good. It was a bit heavy and battery life was quite poor I though (I was struggling to get 5 hours browsing).

No product seems perfect, but this seemed like the best all around tablet IMO.

Likes:

- Perfect size (8.4)

- Very Light

- Great Screen

- Multi-Window (can't get Twitter to show though)

- Good speakers

Dislikes:

- Chip benchmarks as average, so I'm guessing it's not quite as future proof as something with a K1, or Snapdragon 801/805.

- Some OEM apps can't be removed or disabled.

- Nothing else really. As long as it works quick and battery life is decent, I'll be happy.

I also looked at iPad's and used to have an iPad 4. My bigger complaint is when browing or multi-tasking, having tabs or apps that need to constantly reload when switching between them. Seems like the low iPad RAM is the cause for this. I wanted an iPad mini, but that problem did seem to plague them. Only the new Air 2 has 2GB of ram, but I didn't want a 10" sized tablet.
[Galaxy Tab S General] Theazor:
I have used my Tab S 8.4 LTE-model for a while now and all I can say about is, it is totally awesome! I used to have iPad third gen but I really dislike iOS, it may be smooth but that's all. Battery life is great for me, UI is mostly fluid (some hiccups here and there), it is lightweight so easy to carry around and overall user experience is awesome. My Tab is stock non rooted and I currently have any plans on rooting the device.

And lastly, I can't 'review' the Tab without saying how awesome the screen is! You have to see it for yourself to see how awesome it is!
[Galaxy Tab S General] westlife2206:
Great tablet for Youtube, video, twitch. I've just rooted and disabled some apps via Titanium. Still waiting for the official CM. Do you guys have any ideas?

I've some problems with Dungeon defenders and Foxit reader. It seems both apps don't support the 8.4 inch tablet. Both apps don't fit the screen. In the Foxit reader, I don't have the options at the bottom of the app .
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] XDA Visitor:
All of my webpages on my android internet are going blank. They are visible while loading, but when they finish loading they go blank. I have already cleared all personal data, restart phone, force stop internet. Galaxy s5. First time this has happened and it is becoming consistent.

Samsung Galaxy S5

Android version 4.4.2

model: SM-G900T
[T-Mobile LG G3] Influxvisions:
I'm trying to enable the WiFi theater hotspot quick setting button to the menu but I don't know how, did anyone know how? I know is possible because I did it in the past but I lost my phone and now I got my replacement one and I forgot [emoji31]
[General Questions and Answers] violin.siva:
I need root access with a custom rom. Is any thing available for the above mentioned phone model? Kindly excuse my English and reply.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kafe4ever:
Hi,

sorry for my english. First I´ ve got problem with my brand new phone. When i press the screen in the middle with my finger, it squeaks. Do you have same problems with phone ´s body .

Second, my phone has problems with dropping reception after changing bands (e.g. LTE to 3g, 3g to 2g). I Know, that it happens correctly for a few seconds (Base Transceiver Station transfers my signal, and i am off), but i lost my reception for maybe 10 seconds (signal bar is empty). Maybe, my modem (now LPX13D) needs to increase frequency of checking my reception.

thanks for answers to my questions and posting possible fix :good::)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kuldaoo:
Well my phone doesn't do any sounds as you notice in 1).

about 2) I think the offline status is quite normal for few seconds, how often do you notice that?
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tacocats:
Can i just update normally OTA?
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xda23:
No you have to be unrooted if you plan on updating to 5.0 lollipop o.t.a. no if you plan on just flashing a custom 5.0 lollipop rom that a developer made then all you need to do is just flash the rom.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pricey2009:
Don't do OTA, it will screw your phone and you will have to flash stock rom.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tribemac:
No ota, you have to download a ftf you're self and flash it.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zb134:
I just had my supersu update and I think the problems are related to it.

I get the following error message.

Both Greenify and BinaryBox show error accessing root.

Any ideas?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mindfkr:
If you have twrp installed, unistall that supersu and flash this one in twrp http://download.chainfire.eu/635/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.36.zip.

When i updated my supersu i got stuck on bootloop had to flash it in twrp.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] susdujcrd:
Reinstalling v2.35 usually solved these error messages.