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[Sprint HTC One (M9)] mswlogo:
I've had HTC phones since about 5 models before the one you listed. So don't tell me what should know before hand. I also I said it turns out to not be the radio. Also in testing the M9 radio is technically supposed to be top dog compared to other top brands. Many of these phones have the same radio and firmware and only difference is antenna implementation.

I was fine with first year of ultra pixel. It was a reasonable choice. Since then it's a joke. I use the camera a lot. M9/M8 is just bad compared to competition. It's usable but no comparison. When I saw 20mega pixel, I thought finally we'll be back with of the rest, no we are NOT and didn't know that really until now.

What really stinks is the photo files are so big they often won't send over mms.

Because I wanted to see if it was the radio causing issues I tried the G4. But it turns out the screen and camera are the main reasons I'm keeping it, not the radio.

I love the htc speakers, but the G4 speaker surprises me.

I don't consider my post a rant. Just sharing my experience with long time fellow htc owners and I've been an HTC owner longer than most here, including you and I upgrade every year.

HTC had to drop the ball big time to make me even look. The long term prospects for HTC are also a factor. we may all be looking for another brand soon. It will take miracle to save them in my opinion.

So I was giving a preview ;)

By the way a lot of former hard core developers are in the samsung forums.

Yes HTC is king of unlocked boot loader. But with carriers and apps watching for root and tether, unlocking isn't all that will be need in the future. So HTC's nitch is becoming less of a make break deal.
[Sprint HTC One (M9)] schmeggy929:
That's what I hate about people wanting 20+ Mb cameras. I just don't get it, its a camera on a phone which you may upload to social media and send through MMS. You are not going to make a poster size print from a phone camera. Nowadays you need to edit the picture to reduce the size of the file just to send. I personally think the M9 takes great pictures.
[Sprint HTC One (M9)] mswlogo:
M9 takes ok pictures. But it's really not even close to Samsung or LG or Apple. Not even in the same ball park.

One huge issue is the M9 is a slow lens. So if your subject isn't moving or you can hold steady and you have enough light, you can get an ok shot (I've had 3 M8's, M9, M7, S5 and G4).

But with the G4 or S5/S6/etc. you just snap it and you get the shot WAY more often than an M9.

And occasionally it is worth cropping a smartphone photo. But M9 photos really look like crap if you zoom them.

And sometimes you do snag a special moment with a smartphone and it's so nice if it's decent Often M9 is ONLY good enough to view on an M9 screen.

Well I like to save photos for viewing on large screen computer (e.g. Flickr).

This is a sample, and this is still severely down sampled. The quality is frame-able at 8x10.

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/701/20556046883_d99e7aea8e_h_d.jpg
[Sprint HTC One (M9)] Sim-X:
My pictures turn out just fine as well, I really don't understand why people complain. My M8 took great low light shots, sure the resolution was too low but they were fine for social media or MMS like you said. If you are doing professional photos you won't be using a phone camera anyway. The G4 has a better camera, whooohoooo! Who cares, not like you are posting raw image format when sharing on facebook or wherever you are sharing. I like my M9 for several reasons, if you don't like it there is a million other great phones to pick from. Camera quality for all the flagship phones is very well documented, so to get a flagship phone only to complain about the camera when none of this is new information makes no sense.
[Sprint HTC One (M9)] mswlogo:
The M9 was SUPPOSED to have a decent camera. Then the software update was SUPPOSED to fix it. Never happened in my opinion. So it was NOT known "up front" the camera was gonna remain a dud of a camera. Much lower resolution cameras do much better. I prefer the M7 camera to the M8 or M9 camera. At least it could do something in low light other cameras can struggle with. M7 also had OIS (yes that was known when announced, that should have been a hint that something is not quite right with HTC and cameras). The dual mics in the M7 for large dynamic range were also fantastic (later removed due to patent infringements) .

Many folks don't just MMS pics. They like to share them and often end up on a larger screen. M9 pics always look dull and look like they came from a flip phone (often because of blur due to slow lens) when you view them on a large computer screen, the G4's do not.
[Sprint HTC One (M9)] OMJ:
I wouldn't call it a dud...IMO, it is a decent camera, not the best, but decent...and that's all I care about when it comes to a camera on a smartphone. All phones have their pros & cons (same w/ carriers)...the M9 (and all HTC devices) pros far out weight the cons.

I've been a loooong time HTC fan, they are the ONLY manufacturer I've used...I don't plan to switch unless they fold or stop innovating...

-Apache, Touch, Diamond, EVO 4G, EVO 3D, EVO LTE, M7, M8, M9
[Sprint HTC One (M9)] Sim-X:
I feel the same the way. Decent camera I agree. I have set up a couple of GS6 for friends and although better camera I still just don't like touchwiz. Yes the GS6 got a better camera this year, who cares. The 0.69 megapixel facebook timeline pictures I don't think people are going to be comparing. If you take pictures for a living, I don't think it will be with an LG phone my goodness.

Not sure how anyone could have expected a "wow" camera this year to beat out Sammy or Apple. If you prefer a G4 good for you, have yourself a cookie. I'm not going to head over to the G4 forum anytime soon why I like my M9 better than the G4.
[Sprint HTC One (M9)] mswlogo:
Seriously. I've been on HTC for a eons (for long time they were the only choice) I thought the camera was "ok" too. Until I gave the G4 a real spin.

I still have the M9. And I was playing around with both cameras (M9 and G4).

See the attach photo. It's decorative wall switch plate. The room is not brightly lit and neither camera had the flash on full automatic.

The G4 allows 8x Digital Zoom but the M9 is capped lower (I think 4x digital zoom).

So I "zoomed" the M9 on computer to match field of view of the G4 so that it is also at 8x.

Granted this is an extreme stress test. But it shows how massively different the cameras are. Note the M9 is supposed to 20 mega pixel, the G4 is 16.

I pay a good chunk of change for the upgrade every year. And I expect incremental improvements (including the camera). HTC is just not keeping pace.

I LOVE many features of the M9. USM mode of an SD Card is huge for me. Unlocked bootloader is huge. Good development is sometime more important than I admit sometimes (i.e. closet flash-holic)

So it is torture giving those things up. It's also torture seeing HTC tank, because if they were ok financially, I'm sure they would catch up on some the things they are lacking in.

For some snaps I really don't care that much. But for some, I think, oh I wish I had my real camera with me (a Sony Nex 7 formally a Canon 5D-II but I downgraded to the Nex-7 for weight).

For those moments the M9 is often so disappointing. For the G4, it's a pleasant surprise (so was the Samsung S5).

By the way M7,M8,M9 actually do fine on Video. Because that it's only about 1-2 mega pixel per frame (it's down sampled). And HTC has had good Mics, especially early M7's.

There is other times I'm trying to take a macro shot for a circuit board or mechanical issue at work. The higher the quality the better. Most of the time the M9 will get the job done. But higher quality is a real bonus and sometimes can make the difference of capturing what I need or not. So the camera has a wide range applications for me. I knew I was going backwards on camera going back to M8 from S5, but forward on many other things I missed. One huge issue on Samsung's is you trip Knox on Rooting and you are screwed on warranty. And I have been turned away by sprint techs for a rooted phone (that had issues nothing to do with root).

The picture below is just trying to show you the DIFFERENCE. I'm sure part of it is due to OIS on one vs the other.

I'll try M7,M8,M9,G4 soon with it hand held vs tripod-ish and see the difference. I'm curious to see myself. I bet the M7 camera looks similar to M9 (hand held). This test has probably been done. But I'm not sure is M7,M8,M9 has been done in one sitting.

That photo below is telling the M9 is doing about equivalent of 1/4 the mega pixel the G4 is doing (about 4 mega pixel - i.e. at least half the resolution in x and y).

The lens on the M9 is 2 stops slower. The M9 lacks OIS and that accounts for around another stop. 3 Stops is huge on a lot of shots. That's mostly what we are seeing here.
[Sprint HTC One (M9)] schmeggy929:
You must have some serious shake going on there buddy. I have never seen my M9 take a picture that blurry even zoomed.
[Sprint HTC One (M9)] schmeggy929:
Thats maxed zoomed focused on cisco boxes about 30 feet away
[Sprint HTC One (M9)] mswlogo:
You'd don't even know what I'm taking about that. That is Zoomed 8x so you can SEE the difference !! I zoomed it enough to show (exaggerate if you want) the difference in the cameras.

You skipped the text and just looked at the picture or you didn't understand what I did.

All photos will look like Sh$t if you zoom them enough.

All photos will look "ok" if you zoom them out enough. HTC counts on you never looking at the photo off the phone and never cropping it (and they are often right and you are proof).

The reason the HTC looks like crap is, it bumped the ISO up to 1000 because of the F/2.2 lens. The G4 bumped up to 300.

Turns out they both exposed at 1/10 sec.
[Sprint HTC One (M9)] mswlogo:
That's because the HTC caps the Max Zoom at half (4x) of what G4 does.

I zoomed the HTC photo on the computer to match the Max zoom on the G4 (8x).

I zoomed the HTC photo another 2x for a EQUAL comparison.

G4 isn't afraid for the user to see 8x zoom on their 16 mega pixel sensor. HTC is afraid for you too see beyond 4x on their 20 mega pixel.

There is absolutely no comparison between the two. We are not talking close or even trade-offs.

I'm NOT suggesting every one needs 8x. I'm just using it as a tool to show the difference on the SAME playing field.

On normal photos the difference will end up being a burry shot or extremely grainy (i.e. dull).

With EXCESS light. The difference in lens and OIS becomes moot.

So outdoors during the day the M9 might be a closer match (I doubt it but it will be closer).

As soon as you go above ISO-200 and/or slower than 1/60 exposer (which is extremely often) the difference becomes huge.

I have spent thousands on lens to gain 1-2 stops.
[Sprint HTC One (M9)] schmeggy929:
No I did read what you did and understand you zoomed to to show the equivalent to the G4. Im sure you are correct and the camera is way better than the M9. Its just weird you zoomed out the M9 4 more times and wall switch plate is so blurry with no pixelating.
[Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Addeddelight:
Hi everyone, and thanks to the developers who’ve made the Nook HD/HD+ into a real tablet. I have a 16GB HD+ with CM11-2014-11-12- snapshot- m12 build (Kitkat 4.4.4).

For the past several days, I’ve been unable to update Amazon store App or the apps downloaded from Amazon, except for Kindle, which is thru GAPPS. The “Unfortunately, Package Installer has stopped” message appears, and does so when I try to sideload those apk’s. I’ve uninstalled and tried to reinstall both the Amazon Store App and the Optimum Cable App, with the same message appearing.

In addition, when I try to access Apps through Settings, I get the “Unfortunately, Settings has stopped” message on most apps, and for those that open, I can’t clear the cache. Why is this happening and what’s the solution? I and my 10 yr/old sidekick, Noob, jr :cool: would appreciate any help. :confused: Thank you for your time.

I reinstalled the operating system and the apps, all is well now.

Now I can't transfer files between the Nook and my Windows 7 & 8 hard drives. There's no connection at all and neither WIN7 nor 8 loaded any USB drivers. Code 28 response by windows. Any advice???
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sacrawfo:
Hi,

If you don't have a Virgin Mobile Canada SGH-i747M, using android 4.1.2, this probably doesn't apply to you.

It's mostly a matter of curiosity, but...

I started on 4.1.2, used odin to flash a stock 4.1.1 ROM, used the code to unlock the phone, then flashed a Bell stock ROM to 4.1.2 again.

I thought that my phone used to have an "LTE" icon for data when connected to the LTE network. Now it shows a "4G" icon. Can anyone confirm whether it originally showed LTE or 4G? (I might be mixing up with my wife's Bell S4 which definitely shows "LTE"). I want to make sure I didn't lose any capability.

I know some report that some carriers show 4G but actually it's HSPA+. However, I can sometimes get it to show "H+", or "H", or "3G" (esp setting the Network Mode to WCDMA only) So that makes me feel that "H+" is HSPA+ and "4G" is LTE.

Further, under "About Device" -> "Status" -> "Mobile Network Type", I get the following associations between icon and network type.

"3G" ... UMTS:3

"H" ... HSDPA:9

"H+" ... HSPAP:15

"4G" ... LTE:14

Maybe someone can confirm they see the same. Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m4rc3l:
Hi everyone,

does anyone know the (technical/ chipset wise) differences between these 2 models,

I've got unlocked GT-I9195L (Telcel) with stock ROM off eBay, so I rooted the device and flashed CM 11-20140207-NIGHTLY-serranoltexx (Kernel 3.4.0-cyanogenmod-g68aeb40build02@cyanogenmod), every thing works except the phone wont connect to my carrier, I live in EU.

I've tried to flash almost all available serranoltexx CM using ether CWM and TWRP - but no dice same issue on all ROMs.

So in my opinion and correct me if I`m wrong the issue could be the Baseband version which is I9195LUBUBNC1.

Only information I was able to find regarding those two models is that they are basically the same, as mentioned here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=50294975&postcount=5

Google wasn't helpful - found little or no information regarding the I9195L model... :confused:

So my question is:

Is it possible to flash another Baseband (for example http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2545784) on my phone.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m4rc3l:
Anyone?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] echo124:
Flash stock firmware http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/database/GT-I9195L/
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DragosDaniil:
Hi all,i am new here. I have my g3 d855 for 6 months. I rooted it,i have supersu,android 5.0,bought from UK. It was locked on vodafone,i unlocked it using imei. Now i have 2 questions:

1. If i resintall stock firmware(KK 4.4.2) ,my phone will be again locked on vodafone?

2. After i rooted it,i tried flash TWRP using flashify,it said it was successful,but when i tried enter in recovery mode,it said:boot security error. I finally succeed installing TWRP using autorec. Now,the question:can i upgrade android if i have twrp,thinking that soon android 6.0 will be out?(i will unroot it first using SuperSU settings).

I have stock 5.0 ,but if i try restore stock recovery it appears again boot error security. Thanks for patience and i hope i dont bother anyone,im still learning to use my phone
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jhinta:
You simply dont want tot do that you need to wait for a original ROM that is modded ( just a simpel ROM with root en some uptions disabled like update ets ) why ??? Tot keep your bootloader the way it is now . if you still want original lg ROM you still can like always ( you can always flash a original ROM aslong you dont have a hardware failure ALWAYS !

If iets still locked if flashed normale ROM i dont know , i never go to original.( first thing i do is removing original ROM for ever !)

Verstuurd vanaf mijn LG-D855 met Tapatalk
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DragosDaniil:
Thanks
[One (M9) General] kevin_23:
According to various specialized pages in gigaflops and benchmarks, the GPU Adreno 430 810 snpadragon yield on its maximum frequency 388 gigaflops, while k1 NVIDIA Tegra tablet rendidira shield 850 mhz 326 gigaflops.

These data if real means that the HTC One m9 is the same or even more powerful than the nvidia shield tablet? you think? a greeting

more info

http://kyokojap.myweb.hinet.net/gpu_gflops/
[One (M9) General] DeadPotato:
Well, as a fun fact when I was playing Godfire on the M9 with my gamepad some friends asked me if I had a PS3 emulator or something. While I found that exaggerated, I'd say adreno 430 has indeed a great graphical capability, sadly there are very few games to explode its full potential
[One (M9) General] hamdir:
the M9 and its GPU is a gaming beast and its true that we dont have many games optimized for it, infact some old games like Riptide GP2 doesnt use it properly (you need to manually boost CPU governor)

but Modern combat 5 and Godfire are the best showcase so far
[One (M9) General] patelkeyur2262:
Clash of clans
[One (M9) General] hamdir:
finally a new high end game to test on the beast :)

(make sure to switch to high performance settings from the pause menu which adds realtime shadows and bump mapping)

Madfinger Games' UNKILLED

and some performance feedback :)
[One (M9) General] dlads:
Not available for your device. How did you install it
[One (M9) General] DeadPotato:
That's weird, I don't have any restrictions

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[One (M9) General] dlads:
This is what I get. Leedroid - Android version 5.1

What rom, version of Android are you on? Perhaps 5.0.2 supports it.
[One (M9) General] xunus:
I'm on LeeDroid R30 with manual Audio patch. I'm able to install it with no issues.
[One (M9) General] DeadPotato:
I'm on stock unrooted ROM, factory unlocked device 2.11.617.15 firmware
[One (M9) General] dlads:
Which android version is that? 5.0.2? I think it is
[One (M9) General] DeadPotato:
[MENTION=2880355]dladz[/MENTION] it's the latest release for factory unlocked model, android 5.1 and stagefright patch

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[One (M9) General] peca_slo:
good game, and my m9 doesnt go above 44 celsius :) preformance mode
[One (M9) General] dlads:
Wth? I'm on the same, I'm rooted with leedroid but I'm on the same Base.

What is the stage fright pass by the way?
[One (M9) General] DeadPotato:
After the android 5.1 update, there was another firmware update which included a security fix for a known issue which was named stagefright

If you want more information about it, here's a good place to start

http://m.androidcentral.com/stagefright
[One (M9) General] dlads:
FYI it was Google play services
[One (M9) General] hamdir:
Need for speed no limits released, for some reason Firemonkeys botched it on Android, its running in low res and worse than the previous Need for speed, hoping for an update

btw i just downloaded the latest version of Modern Combat 5 Blackout, the performance is simply phenomenal
[One (M9) General] dlads:
Was looking at that but i'm seriously dubious about downloading any "free to play" games, so long as you can complete the game in the intended time and you don't have advantages taken away from you, that fine, but when you are forced to buy i think they should just offer a paid version.

Or low and behold, a choice?!?!? wouldn't that be a turn up.
[One (M9) General] hamdir:
here is another game to test the beast:

Dead Effect 2
[One (M9) General] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
it's running in full graphic Settings at 60 fps locked...and Looks damn nice! :)
[Off-topic] Ivan93tm:
Hi all, i know this isn't a forum for stuff like this, but i really love my GF and i'm really proud about this picture taken with a nexus 5 :P

if you have instagram please hit the heart on those 3 instagram photo

Mod edit: Links removed

forgive me for the little spam and huge off topic
[Off-topic] Magnum_Enforcer:
Not the sort of place for this, I'm afraid.

Thread closed
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Iolaum:
Hello everyone

I have an old GS3 and time is starting to take it's toll on performance. Therefore I am thinking of rooting it to improve performance. (I ve already done pre rooting stuff to improve performance like disabling bloatware and turning off graphics from developer options).

The problem is I belong in the category, if you are not sure how to do it don't do it! So I want to be careful about it.

I am mot a multimedia heavy type of guy so half of my 8 Gb storage is free.

What I want to do is intstall CM11 (to upgrade from android 4.3 to 4.4.4) and afterwards add a 4 Gb SD card and use it as RAM.

I know I first have to start with backing up contacts and Data.

Then I plan on installing CM11 with the steps from that vidoe/guide:

How to install CyanogenMod 11 on Samsung Galaxy s3 - Papp Ferencz [Can't post URL]

1.	Download snapshot: cm-11-20141115-SNAPSHOT-M12-i9300.zip (212.87 MB)

[A new snapshot just came up at CM11 site, cm-11-20150901-SNAPSHOT-XNG3CAO3G0-i9300.zip, I m thinking of using this instead.]

2.	Google and download android 4.4.4 gapps

3.	Copy the files on the internal memory.

4.	Boot in recovery more: Home+Power+Volume_Up

5.	Wipe Data/Factory reset

6.	Wipe Cache partition

7.	Go to Advanced mode and wipe Dalvik cache

8.	Install zip -> Install from Sd card -> 0\ -> cm-11-…

9.	And the gapps-kk-20140105-signed

Will this, to the best of your knowledge (I know there are no guarantees) do it right?

Then I plan to use an 4 GB class 10 (probably) SD card and use that guide

site androidpit /increase-phone-ram [can't post url]

[Scroll to the second section for details:

How to increase your RAM when you have root access

In this section we're going to explain how to increase your RAM with a rooted device. The trick involves creating a partition on your SD card, which will act as a secondary source of RAM. To do this, we will be using the ROEHSOFT RAM Expander (SWAP) app ... ] etc

Do you guys also know if this will work?

I m open to alternative implementations as well if you guys have tested something and are confident it will owrk on the I9300 int version.

Thanks a lot for your help :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darkened_Sky:
[MENTION=2495142]lolaum[/MENTION]

as you come from an official 4.3 rom and switch to an aosp based rom you will already notice an high performance increase ;)

it is a known problem hat i9300 has not high ram capacities, but probably using 4gb of slow sd card space (even if it is class 10, compared to real ram it is damn slow ;) ) as swap will probably make more harm than good to your performance.

definitely use the newer cm11 rom as it is patched against stagefright.

also the latest cm12.1 based ROMs (lollipop) with their memory optimizations are really smooth. (they can be found in the i9300 android development forum)

if you still have RAM problems you could also consider to use one of the custom kernels. most of them give the possibility to use zram, which reserves some space on RAM for compression. as it is compressed the sizes shrinks and it is still fast as the swap is placed on RAM itself.

Please also consider to have a look at the stickies. for example backing up your efs is an important step before flashing a new rom!