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[Galaxy S6 General] brucipher:
I am probably going to pick up am S6 Edge. I've been a long time Nexus user (currently have 32GB N5) so I am used to not having an SD Card or removable battery.

I used to really be in to flashing ROMs (first Android phone for me was the Thunderbolt) and tweaking stuff, but Android has matured to the point where the stock experience lacks very little I want. If I jump on the S6, I will miss being at the bleeding edge of the newest versions of Android...but hopefully there will be a modding community for it (although I guess people are saying the Exynos chip will put a damper on that) .

I love Android...but at this point I am feeling superficial and want a phone that is both beautiful and functional. To me, the S6 Edge is gorgeous and has a real wow factor. The HTC One M9 is beautiful too, but to me the S6 Edge looks more cutting edge.

I do worry about battery life with the screen, but I am hoping some of the newer internals allow for a reasonable battery life (as long as it compared to the N5 I will be fine). I also worry about the price - I would like a 64GB version of the S6 Edge, and it makes me a little scared to think about how much that is going to cost...

Overall, I am really excited about the prospect of being an S6 Edge owner!
[Galaxy S6 General] Andrewtst:
I love big phone! But this S6 Edge is way too sexy to ignore! especially the Gold color! I am buying it!

Non removable battery never issue to me, I never but spare battery before in all phone I use.

Remove of SD card is the right choice for constant speed performance. Just get an 64GB edition, it is far than enough, SD Card is useless now.
[Galaxy S6 General] netnerd:
s6 gold is hot.

it reminds me of chrome.

i'm a chrome lover.
[Galaxy S6 General] thy.flesh.consumed:
I thought so too after having Cyanogenmod on my S2 for a few years. Then I had to go to a "stock" LG android phone and then I remembered why I got into flashing ROMs in the first place. All the stock roms replace nice and neat system apps with horrible reskins and redesigns, they bloat the system with unneccessary apps that lag the phone, they move around settings to the point where you cannot find anything, they do stupid tweaks to UI that are ugly and nonfunctional. If you're coming from Nexus, you have it pretty good as stock android is nice and clean, I think you'll be in for a rude awakening once you go back to touchwiz.
[Galaxy S6 General] tommaazz:
I think i will go for a blue s6 and probably 32gb as i think it will be enough for me for a two years till s8 comes around :D and i also think that the premium for edge is not worth it in my opinion it is just too expensive
[Galaxy S6 General] tyvar1:
I will buy Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge because:

New memory(UFS 2.0)

New RAM (LPDDR4)

Faster CPU than SD810

The screen is wicked! 577 PPI! QHD SUPER AMOLED!
[Galaxy S6 General] hella356:
Useless for you. For users like me (and there are a lot of us) 64GB isn't even close to being enough, nor is 128GB. There are many reasons why a lot of users would want additional onboard storage. I will not use cloud storage: I will not hand over my personal files to any cloud service, a cloud service is useless if you don't have a signal, downloading from the cloud is slow and eats up battery, etc. Yes, the speed of SD cards is less than internal storage, but SD speed is a small tradeoff for such massive increases in portable storage, and this has absolutely no bearing on how the phone functions unless you are actually utilizing the SD card. Unless you are installing apps to SD, the speed is a non-issue, and with 32, 64, & 128GB internal, you should never have to install to SD. Of course, Samsung has a history of announcing higher built-in storage versions which never see the light of day, so until they demonstrate that the bigger capacity phones are truly available, I can't place much stock in this. I load up my SD cards with the FLAC music files I use most commonly, leaving the internal for whatever else I am in the mood to have on the phone. A 200GB SD card was just announced, which still would only hold about 15% of my music, but every additional GB is an improvement.

16GB has always proven enough for me in terms of storing the OS and apps. I would love to have 128GB built-in AND SD card. SD cards also make dealing with ROM installs and backups easier and are cheaper than paying for more built-in storage.

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Pretty much every improvement they added to the S6 makes it a great upgrade over pretty much every phone on the market, if SD card, removable battery, & water resistance don't matter to you. If Samsung's claims about the Exynos CPU's power efficiency are true, I could live with the battery situation. The screen, light weight and compactness, CPU and built-in storage performance, Wolfson DAC (although I've yet to see confirmation of this), 3GB RAM, IOS, etc. are all great reasons to buy it.
[Galaxy S6 General] fridgeman:
After having no sd card and non removable battery for the past 2 years (HTC ONE) and not having missed either, its time for a change for me. The new Samsung looks like a good choice for what I personally want, plenty fast enough, good size, enough memory, a battery that charges quick and a camera that launches quick. Roll on April. :D And I dont care if it looks like an iphone or an htc one :p :silly:
[Galaxy S6 General] Emieltes:
I'm going to get it (the non edge) to replace my S4 as my private phone. Also because I'm sick of Qualcomm hardware and it's mehh GPU's and I just want an Exynos device again like my good old S2 and Note 4 (work phone).
[Galaxy S6 General] geoff5093:
If you are one of the few tinfoil hat wearers, why not host your own cloud? I have an 8TB NAS that I run as my own cloud server, with file syncing between my devices including my phone, photo upload, music/photo/video streaming via Android apps and a web-based viewer, etc. The benefit here is that you don't need to decide what to put on that 128GB MicroSD card. If you're like me, I have over 1TB of movies and TV Shows, tens of thousands of photos, and thousands of songs. 95% of the time I have LTE so with unlimited data it's not an issue streaming, and when I don't have service I either download them before hand or just live in the moment and use that time to be away from my phone. Cloud storage also allows you to skip having your files in multiple places that need to be updated manually.
[Galaxy S6 General] dandroid13:
Typical American comment, "cloud", "unlimited data", "LTE", "streaming". And what about the rest or the world, where data is very expensive and LTE (and even 3G) coverage is poor? You people think everyone has these things everywhere.

Enviado do meu Galaxy S5
[Galaxy S6 General] geoff5093:
American comment? Everyone comments about how expensive data is in America and how much better it is outside of America.,
[Galaxy S6 General] VICosPhi:
Guys, SanDisk just announced a 200GB microSD
[Galaxy S6 General] detonation:
Haven't had expandable storage or a removable battery in years so I couldn't care less about that. Finally glad internal sizes are increasing. I'm itching for a new phone and the S6 is by far the best offering. Looking forward to a fingerprint sensor on android that finally works as well as TouchID, among other things. Need some real world reviews first though. And I'm hoping for a verizon dev edition.
[Galaxy S6 General] dandroid13:
Really? Because here ever 3G is ****ty, streaming is for rich people and data plans are one of the most expensive in the world.
[Galaxy S6 General] geoff5093:
Where is that the case? I always here from people in the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, Australia, and other countries have MUCH cheaper data with faster speeds than America. Whenever an article talks about American carriers bumping plans from 1GB to 2GB, the comments are filled with how much cheaper it is in X country.
[Galaxy S6 General] dandroid13:
I'm paying ~125 USD for 5GB here in Brazil, it sucks to live in the southern hemisphere. :p
[Galaxy S6 General] istperson:
Because it's mostly the Americans who live their lives without leaving their country even once. Where "Roaming Data price" is three words that mean nothing. You can forget about your cloud the moment you cross the border and start roaming. Even the EU roaming charge abolish law is not effective until 2018, it still doesn't mean that you can use your data plans. It only means they can't charge you more than their own customers. And if you leave the EU, you can either go broke, or forget about data, which means cloud is completely useless.
[Galaxy S6 General] geoff5093:
It's not us, it's the Europeans and Australians bragging about their cheap data prices whenever the topic of American carriers come up. Just read Android blogs and they are littered with such comments, again, not from Americans. Personally, I've been to various areas of Mexico, Canada, Spain, as well as various islands.
[Galaxy S6 General] istperson:
I don't know what cheap is. I live in Hungary, I'm a senior software engineer, my year's salary is crap compared to the Western EU countries or the USA, just above 25 grand a year. I pay ~20$ per month for my subscription that includes 500MB of data, and another ~8$ for another gig. So cloud would be totally useless for me, since I can't sit on a wifi router the whole day, and then not to mention roaming, which I do often, and it means zero data.
[Galaxy S6 General] Towle:
Where do you get your information?
[Galaxy S6 General] istperson:
People trying to convince me that the cloud is always enough.
[Galaxy S6 General] djwilliams100:
If youve got nothing to hide, then what is the issue?
[Galaxy S6 General] hella356:
The reality is I DO host my own cloud, but it is slower than copying to SD, requires more fiddling around with the phone while I'd rather be utilizing it for other things, requires a good wireless connection, and chews up too much battery life on my phone while downloading - another reason I'd prefer a replaceable battery. I use it to get rarely used files when I need them, but it's not nearly as useful to me as having lots of internal storage. Maybe local storage on the device is useless to you, but not to me and many others. Cloud is a nice augmentation, but as a second option. If the Saygus V2 ever sees the light of day, I'll opt for that over the S6, because it has two SD card slots, giving an easy 320GB total storage and with the announced 200GB SD card could hold 464GB. That would still only represent a fraction of my data, but would give a lot of on-hand choices. The dream scenario, to me, would be onboard storage of the 3TB+ of all my files: instant access to all, internet connection or not. Fantasy for now, but could be reality at some point. In the meantime, I'd like to get as close to this ideal as possible, and the best all-around solution (for me) for approaching this is through SD cards. Make sense?
[Galaxy S6 General] 8roundsrapid:
Lol
[Galaxy S6 General] phobia09:
So, regardless of what ignorant Americans (I'm an American) are posting in here about the accessibility we have to the cloud, LTE coverage, how much data we have, etc. one thing still holds true. This is a thread about reasons why people are getting the Galaxy S6/S6 Edge, so anyone who is posting about their country's coverage/data plans are not following the thread's purpose.

To get back on point....

I am likely getting the Galaxy S6 because:

1. Materials - Gorilla glass 4 on both sides and aluminum finally being present together is an amazing combination.

2. Colors and Design - This is one of the most beautiful phones I've seen, it is designed very well with the use of the materials listed above. I, personally, see the topaz blue as simply stunning and looks good with the quazi-two-tone effect when looking at it with different angles.

3. Exynos 7420 - Specifically the 14nm process is what I like. This chip is brilliant in benchmarks, blowing competition away. It's also supposed to be more efficient than anything else out there, meaning that the 2550mah battery shouldn't be a problem for me along with many other users.

4. Internal capacity/write speed - This is a big one for me. I, personally, don't like keeping track of what's on my microsd versus internal storage. Unifying that all into internal storage will be pretty convenient for me, personally. The write speed will be just a bonus for me. I've only got about 10gb of music and less than 500 pictures from the last 4 years of my life. I don't really have any digital copies of movies or TV shows, I stream when on wifi, typically from Netflix, Showbox, etc.

5. Display and screen size - I love my Note 4's display, but I am not too keen on the size of the phone itself, and the S-Pen is not worth having to manage such a large device. Quad HD Super AMOLED on a 5.1" screen will be fantastic.

I've got more, but no time to post them all, I feel like the S6 Edge could almost get its own list.
[Galaxy S6 General] RED_:
I'm choosing the Nexus 6 or this as a gift for my dad.

Camera is important and I've been told the N6 camera is slow and not very good . This camera is quick and seems to be quite good. So that's a key reason for buying this phone. I think I will go for this one in the end. My dad still uses a Samsung Galaxy S2... he just got a Nexus 9 so a Nexus 6 is not really needed. The screen is just too big.

Price will be a key factor but I'm leaning towards the S6 right now. One thing I will be doing, is trying to get the S6 to be as close to stock as possible. So I'll be installing the Google Now launcher, the Google Keyboard. I'm tempted to root and flash a close to stock ROM but since the phone is not for me, it will never get updated beyond me installing the ROM, and it's not something I should really be doing on somebody elses phone. Shame really because TouchWiz sucks. Google Now launcher should help with that though.

I hope to god Samsung still doesn't do updates via that ****ty Kies softwre and that I can simply do it OTA.
[Galaxy S6 General] saltrocks:
Whoever says that the S6 looks like an iPhone is blind, the iPhone near the S6 looks stinky, dont u agree?
[Galaxy S6 General] barondebxl:
Im going to buy it cause of the camera, design, power and feature combo. I could care less about a micro SD card or removable battery as even 32 GB is more than enough for me and after having used all the galaxy S from the 1st to the 5th and all of the notes i have never carried a spare battery. Shut up and take my money!
[Galaxy S6 General] tyvar1:
So true!
[Galaxy S6 General] fridgeman:
:D Glad i live in the UK now http://www.three.co.uk/Discover/Why_choose_three :good::good:
[Galaxy S6 General] Hanson68:
1. Camera - f/1.9 apeture and OIS will make this a low light beast

2. Smaller and thinner than the S5 - the S4 was the perfect size and the S5 still feels a skosh too big.

3. Improved fingerprint scanner - so much better than swiping

4. Built-in wireless charging - I bought the charging pad for the S5, but the OEM charging back made the phone uncomfortably thick and the aftermarket sticker made the back of the phone uncomfortably hot.

I'll probably get the S6 unless the Edge is more comfortable for one-handed use.
[Galaxy S6 General] David_freestyle:
I'll get it 'cause I want to change my s4
[Galaxy S6 General] musiclover7:
I'm not sold on the edge just yet. I need to see what these things will look/feel like with a case. I'm not about to start carrying around my expensive phone naked and u protected, and unless there are some slick smart cases out there that will protect this bad boy without changing the look/feel a whole lot, I'll likely opt for the standard.
[Galaxy S6 General] msavic6:
I had a chance to look at the edge up close although it was an engineering sample and didn't turn on.

I'm not quite sure the edge is worth the additional premium over the regular S6, while it does have more of a "WOW" factor at first, the S6 also has a really nice design.

There's also the whole issue with cases and screen protectors that you have to deal with if you get the Edge, I'll hold my judgment until I get a chance to use both but at this time I think it is better to spend the additional money on larger storage for the regular S6.
[Galaxy S6 General] rumatt:
Because I need a new phone.
[Galaxy S6 General] opieum:
I am moving from an Xperia Z1s. Solid phone I have been very happy with it. But the Samung Pay and new fingerprint features are a nice win for me personally. The loss of SDcard and Removable battery are meh (I had an S4 prior) so I can deal with that so long as there is plenty of storage on the SDcard. As for the argument for cloud...if you have such a love/hate relationship with the cloud, it might be worth creating a VM on your own machine using owncloud https://owncloud.org/install/#. If you really really don't trust "clouds" build your own. Owncloud gives you the ability to do it all yourself. I think this solves the space issue and the cloud/snooping issues. If you own your cloud you control the content. You know who also controls it. Agian depends on whether you want to take the time to go that far with it. I plan to. Still on the fence over WHICH S6 I am getting.
[G3 Themes and Apps] Whyt_e:
Is it compatible with quick remote?
[G3 Themes and Apps] Meneldur:
Can't wait to upgrade to 0301 to try!
[G3 Themes and Apps] Chabino.G:
For now no, it's in beta stage. In my next update maybe it'll be compatible.
[G3 Themes and Apps] lapocompris:
Does that mean the screen will stay on with the cover ?
[G3 Themes and Apps] Chabino.G:
Indeed the screen will stay on with the cover. But when you installed and launched QCircleView app your screen will turn off automatically when you close the cover.

In fact, I just manage this features on my app, instead of let the rom manage it. ;) Try it, but for reverse you can reflash the CM12_2015-03-01 without wipe, it will restore your original framework-res.apk.
[G3 Themes and Apps] num1gever:
Can someone confirm if it's working with BlissPop 2.1?
[G3 Themes and Apps] Chabino.G:
Don't try it because of different framework-res. apk. Send me BlissPop 2.1 framework-res.apk in System/framework/ I will make a zip for you.
[G3 Themes and Apps] yoavst:
I would like to add support for Quick Circle Apps for that If you will open source it.

I'll upload the framework-res of crdroid soon.

Edit: Was trying to do that by myself, why does it fail after:

apktool d framework-res.apk

*editing file*

apktool b framework-res
[G3 Themes and Apps] Chabino.G:
You are the best Yo, I will post my source on github soon.
[G3 Themes and Apps] Commandox:
Working fine on CM12, add more watch faces and please remove the texts you added on watches ... the battery level time and date... or give us the option to hide them... on some watches it looks really ugly. other then that big thanx for your work ...missed quickcircle apps on my phone

Oh and also please put other icons for the apps, the one you chose are a bit ugly..
[G3 Themes and Apps] yoavst:
Thanks. Here is my framework res: http://www42.zippyshare.com/v/8ktht4xI/file.html

Can you tell me what have you done to make the compiling back work?
[G3 Themes and Apps] Chabino.G:
Thanks for your feedbacks ahah. I will modify that soon. But for the icon I have no inspiration, give me your idea ;).

Your welcom. Can you please try to answer and reject a call in the cover, if it is broken I will correct it on my next update.
[G3 Themes and Apps] Chabino.G:
Download and use this beta apktool at the end of the link.

https://code.google.com/p/android-a...tus Priority Milestone Owner Summary Modified it's work fine.

But to be sure that the size don't change, I hex edit it with HxD Editor. Search 12 FF FF FF 08 (corresponding to .ÿÿÿÿ. = "true") hex value, go to 29th occurrence and modify it to 12 00 00 00 00 08 (corresponding to ...... = "false"). (I count the number of true value on bool.xml since the beginning to lidControlSleep, for now on CM12 it's 29).

Edit : Here is your edited framework zip : http://www47.zippyshare.com/v/buaMt4dU/file.html
[G3 Themes and Apps] Upstreammiami:
This would remove XPOSED right?
[G3 Themes and Apps] Chabino.G:
Hmm well.. I don't know, give it a try maybe. Do xposed modify the framework-res.apk?
[G3 Themes and Apps] Upstreammiami:
Yes

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Would be great if you make this into an XPOSED module so you can use there framework
[G3 Themes and Apps] Chabino.G:
I will work on it, I don't have xposed yet, but as soon as possible.
[G3 Themes and Apps] yoavst:
Leave it to me, I'll work on it.
[G3 Themes and Apps] Chabino.G:
Thanks for them. PM me if needed:)
[G3 Themes and Apps] manups4e:
well using it we could mod it into a knockcode by xposed..
[G3 Themes and Apps] BigBoot93:
Xposed only allows to hook Java code
[G3 Themes and Apps] Chabino.G:
Yes, I mean reuse dt2w detection, and tweak it.

Something like I do to detect the cover. I think that a file is probably edited on this event
[G3 Themes and Apps] CYPEC0RE:
Thank you for your work, just tried it and it works like a charm with cm12 !

You are amazing ! keep up the good work :)
[G3 Themes and Apps] Rewtor:
I noticed the screenshot for the weather, but does this also have a combined clock and weather like the stock G3?
[G3 Themes and Apps] BigBoot93:
Not yet, but [MENTION=6384310]Chabino.G[/MENTION] said, he is working in a weather clock.
[G3 Themes and Apps] Rewtor:
Any plans to make the quick camera work as it does on stock? At the moment it just opens the camera app rather than shrink the camera into the circle
[G3 Themes and Apps] BigBoot93:
What do you mean, it just opens the camera?

It should look like this:
[G3 Themes and Apps] manups4e:
he's talking about the fact that is a square window instead of being circular ^^ well to be honest is not so important.. main thing is that pics taken from that quick app are very low in resolution and are shown rotated in gallery
[G3 Themes and Apps] alansupra94:
I tried installing and I am not allowed to change settings :(

Am I doing this right?

-Install xposed. (Search a tuto on xda)

-Flash the makepermissive.zip to set SElinux on permissive, no need soft reboot anymore.

-install the xposed module "disable_lid_controlSleep". Activate it and then reboot normally.

-install the app quickapps-patched and chabinoapps

I do that and I get no access to settings. Am I missing something?
[G3 Themes and Apps] manups4e:
you didn't installed the first of the 3 apps

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=59892931&postcount=128

read carefully the order (after xposed and the module)

first install qcview-20150407-2.apk

then install quickapps patched

and finally chabinoapps
[G3 Themes and Apps] BigBoot93:
What settings? You should have a new app call QuickCircle View. Start it and it'l guide you to through the first-time setup.

After that just close the Cover and it should show up.
[G3 Themes and Apps] Chabino.G:
We can put a quickmask in front of it, but it'll only hide a part of the camera.

It's strange, I was sure that I had put quality to max, maybe a mistake in the code. I'll modify CahbinoApps, now it'll include only the apps that quickapps doesn't support, so I or BigBoot will improve the last apps.

[MENTION=535343]all[/MENTION] Weather Clock work on my version so good, I just need to port it in BigBoot version.
[G3 Themes and Apps] alansupra94:
Oh okay. I didn't see it mentioned anywhere in this

Follow the instructions in the first post to patch your framework-res.apk (Using either XPosed or a modded framework-res.apk). But instead

of installing the QCircleView from the first post, use this one.

Install quickapps-patched for Quick Circle Apps (You'll have to first uninstall the unpatched version If it's installed)

On stock roms it should be possible to use the unpatched version (untested)

Install chabinoapps to get the collection of chabinos apps.

and it was just attached. Sorry if my question was dumb.
[G3 Themes and Apps] BigBoot93:
I'll update the instructions to make it a bit more clear.
[G3 Themes and Apps] manups4e:
can you check that pics taken from the cover are rotated? ^^