Battersea Power Station
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What's the best deal on an unsubsidized Galaxy Note that works on TMo bands?
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brotkasten
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Remember the teaser pic for the Galaxy Nexus event? Dat curved glass screen!
The Faceless Master
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the blue signifies the vast ocean of Android devices... the white signifies the fresh foamy upper layer that washes ashore as people play in the water at the beach having an awesome time.
Foliorum Viridum
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I feel like I'm pretty used to Android already after a few days with my S2. I'm really loving the apps and customisation.
I don't really feel the need to hack and flash and load custom roms like a lot of you guys were suggesting a few pages back. At least not yet. This is such a generational upgrade over my old shitty Blackberry I really don't feel the need to do anything too adventurous because all of the default options are more than enough.
I've spent a few days getting my home screens just right and I think I've finally got it how I like it. I'll never need to go in to the app menu now!
So yeah, really pleased with my purchase
I don't really feel the need to hack and flash and load custom roms like a lot of you guys were suggesting a few pages back. At least not yet. This is such a generational upgrade over my old shitty Blackberry I really don't feel the need to do anything too adventurous because all of the default options are more than enough.
I've spent a few days getting my home screens just right and I think I've finally got it how I like it. I'll never need to go in to the app menu now!
So yeah, really pleased with my purchase
Samsung is going to re-reveal the white One X?
HTC was the star sometime back, but they ruined that. /shrug
If Samsung even halfway delivers on the S3, tons of people will buy it just based on it being a follow up to the S2.
Which kind of sucks because they have a very iPhone-y look to their UI. It's a shame that Duarte's work/vision of what Android should be is really not hitting the mainstream crowd. But that's the nature of the monster I guess.
to be fair, we haven't seen the new touchwiz yet.
I'm officially done with my Verizon Galaxy Nexus. If anyone is in the market for one, shoot me a PM, it's in mint condition with an extended battery and Diztronic Rev3 case. Currently has 4.0.4 and an unlocked bootloader, but can be returned to stock if need be. Never overclocked.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Why's that? I'm moving to Europe soon and I've got to figure out what my new phone will be. My Verizon GN won't work over there. Galaxy S 3 may be that phone but how was ROM support on the S2? Easy to get stock-ish ROMs on there?
Battery life wasn't doing it for me. I'm a power user who can't be bothered to tether to a power cord all day.
As per the advice in here, I've decided to flash cm9, but I am having issues - I am going from Darky to cm9, so I already have a lot of the steps completed - at least I thought I did. Do I have to re-root? My CWM is telling me that the update.zip file isn't passing 'whole file signature verification'.
edit: scratch that, I just turned off signature verification, and now it's still not working - but that's because nothing happens - well something happens, but it happens so quick that I can't see the error message (when I try to install update.zip).
edit: scratch that, I just turned off signature verification, and now it's still not working - but that's because nothing happens - well something happens, but it happens so quick that I can't see the error message (when I try to install update.zip).
Good Job Bob
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I can't imagine making Samsung making a phone more desirable to me than the One X, we'll see.
Software buttons :3
I'll be sorely disappointed if the GS3 will be some plain ol' rounded corners phone like their the latest 'leak'.
the only embarassing thing about the One X... that ugly ass menu bar that pops up.
You should go prepaid now and sign up for a new plan in European, since their contract packages are cheaper.
Exactly.
Why "update.zip"? Doesn't sound like the names cm usually uses. What phone are you trying to install it on?
Yeah, I'm light years ahead now - I thought for some reason when I put the file on my phone that's what it was called, but I somehow managed to put it inside a zip labeled update.zip that was already in my phone
.Regardless, just installing cm9 didn't work (fucked my phone up a bit actually) have to reflash a bunch of stuff, right now I am almost done though, in the re-rooting stage.
edit: rooting went well, now making a backup! Next up is going to be installing the actual cm9 rom!
edit: backup went fine, tried installing the cm9 rom and it fucked up again - the same as before
. So close.It does that thing where it infinite reboots with the Cm9 logo showing up, and the install failing over and over.
Did you wipe? You'll get a boot loop for sure if you don't wipe.
I noticed that when I try to wipe, nothing actually gets removed off my phone. Which is weird, it just goes back to factory default settings - but my actual interal SD still has all the folders and shit.
Never heard of tweakers.net before haha. I wonder what the overlap between invitees to this Samsung event and to apple events look like. I guess the way to triangulate apple fan blogs is they only go to apple events.
man, that invite is such a tease
Ooh, a livestream of the event too. Anyone going to create a thread?
No that's just supposed to clear your system partition an davlik cache or something. Admittedly I haven't done any tampering on my Nexus, but with my old hero, switching between roms almost always required me to wipe, but nothing from the data partition got lost.
Well I went into advanced and specifically checked "wipe davlik data" - and now it seems to be installing it properly. Hoorah.
Woo! all good, now just need to install gapps
When the benchmark numbers are 10 higher as from the one x your hype will rise
. Really interested in gsIII specs but i still think that htc has made (finally) two really good contenders. Looking forward to the display samsung are going to use.
*brofist*
This. That LCD2 in the One X is going to be extremely hard to top, even for AMOLED.
a galaxy phone? Every provider... 4 different times.
AMOLED has always had inaccurate color (particularly the green). This is the case for all Galaxy phones and the PS Vita. I don't know why you guys go gaga over it.
That's easy. An One X with SD card and a replacable battery.
BootlegSnackz
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Maybe everyone loves it because of the battery life associated with it because of the black pixels actually not being turned on at all. To be honest I could never tell the difference.
Hopefully the rumors are true and I can get my AT&T One X on or before Sunday. Should have details on the release tomorrow according to BGR. Apple fanboys be damned those guys break many an android news story.
As for the lack of removable battery and micro sd...welcome to the future...you will be seeing a lot more of that in the next couple years.
Hopefully they start including bigger batteries and at the very least 32 or 64gb. Dammit AT&T and your ridiculous 16gb...what am I supposed to do with that?
Cloud storage wont matter until the return of unlimited data. It will return someday...mark my words
AMOLED sucks more battery
Some people prefer the hyper saturation that amoled screens provide. And the blacks on amoled screens are unbeatable. In the end it's all about options...
I'm not going gaga. I stated my opinion on amoled a dozen pages before.
Just interested what samsung is going to do now htc has a screen tech that matches the fidelity of the good amoleds.
We don't know if samsung keeps the AMOLED route and puts out a new super-super-amoled-hd screen or if they go with the GS2 display. But the interesting part is that Samsung owns the company behind the SLCD2 displays an since these displays are getting really good critcs maybe they'll put these SLCD2's into the GSIII. Nobody knows. In the end i like that there is more competition in the high end segment. Even Sony is stepping up their game with the Xperia S.
The Faceless Master
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they're going to reveal the Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III Pro Epic 4G LTE, the world's most awesome, thin and radical 4.5" Super AMOLED RGB HD sliding KB phone.
or at least that's what happened in my dreams...
SAMOLED screens are great because of the black levels, nothing else. And I think the inaccurate colours matter to maybe a fraction of 1% of people - if they cared about the fidelity they'd first of all be complaining about the cranked up image sharpness setting that Samsung uses which is far more obnoxious, and the few times I have seen that mentioned (on XDA, never in a review) it hasn't generated any discussion.
actually, there was TONS of flack on Google for fixing the color temps on their nexus devices into realistic color reproduction. Everyone complained because they the neon colors
The Faceless Master
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this.
Samsung is perfectly capable of properly calibrating their SAMOLED screens to a realistic palette.
they just... don't.
also the pixels aren't "off" when it's black...put a samoled+ phone in a pitch black environment and you will see that it's very very dimly lit. Still absolutely amazing black levels.
Also don't know if its just my infuse but the colours are oversaturated...which isn't really a bad thing tbh. The striking vibrance is nice, even if it's innaccurate.
Also don't know if its just my infuse but the colours are oversaturated...which isn't really a bad thing tbh. The striking vibrance is nice, even if it's innaccurate.
If this is the future then the future is an ass. This is The Hunger Game future. I shell hold on to the Best Galaxy and wait for somebody make a proper sequel.
The Faceless Master
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BLUE AND BLACK ... AND WHITE
pretty sure that's wrong and tools that measure that sort of thing show there is literally zero light coming from the black pixels.
pretty sure that's wrong and tools that measure that sort of thing show there is literally zero light coming from the black pixels.
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