Jazzy Network
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Power saving seems to help. Can probably add about 30-60 minutes of SoT on a given day and an extra 3-4 hours during the day.
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Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge |OT| I just had six, and it felt so good
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brandonh83
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I'm getting one of these in June, at least I hope, and I'm trying to find a good program that plays/organizes music of various formats (mp3/flac/etc) that I can use to later transfer to my phone. I know you can do this with various programs like Winamp or Spotify, but I was just wondering what everyone else uses. Just something simple and quality. I like iTunes' UI for example but don't really care for it in other ways.
Mammoth Jones
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I think I'm gonna order an S6 tonight for my wife. She's been using a windows phone for the last two months but she can't stand the UI flow or the fact that she doesn't have access to many of the apps she wants to use.
And I really don't want her going back to her old ass S3.
Hopefully she'll like it.
And I really don't want her going back to her old ass S3.
Hopefully she'll like it.
SliChillax
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I use Foobar, it can also convert flac's to mp3.
Looks like 5.1.1 is rolling out for the T-Mo Edge already. This bodes very well, shocked they're pushing it out so fast. Has guest mode, too.
Sheeeeit, come on Samsung, get it to my Canadian S6E stat.
It was alarming, I'd never seen standby drain that bad ever either. It's under control now.
brandonh83
Banned
I like Foobar well enough, I may look into that. If I'm using my phone as my portable mp3 player, would it be simpler to only get mp3 files? I thought I read S6 played flac but I guess not. I know it's not really a big hassle to convert, but I'd rather keep it as simple as possible.
Quadraphonic
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Yeah. The memory leak sucks. Best you can do for now is disable live wallpapers, and in developer options set all the animations to 0x to disable them. (Animations are the source of the memory leak)
For the location/sync issues, what did you turn off? Google Now is easy enough to turn off the cards, but for Location did you turn it off entirely? Location using what? GPS/Wifi/Mobile?
I just turned them off from the drop down notification shade, there's a bunch of quick toggles so I added background sync and location to it and just turn them off when I don't need them. Thanks for the tip on the anumations, I turned them all off so hopefully that helps until Samsung patches the mem leak.
How do you disable live wallpapers?
SliChillax
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Wait the S6 doesn't read flac? Are you sure? I thought all Androids did, my M8 does.
Zalusithix
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I haven't bothered to check whether it does or not, but I don't see that as mattering much. Unless you're using high end headphones in a quiet area, you'd just be wasting space with FLAC. Well encoded MP3/M4As are good enough for any typical portable listening.
SliChillax
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The S6 has a Wolfson DAC which makes it sound much better than any other Android handset and if you're using high end earphones/headphones then why not? The phone has enough space for flac files this way you don't have to go through the hassle of converting to mp3.
Zalusithix
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The people that have high enough quality full sized headphones and are able to reliably hear the difference between the two in a double blind test are already the minority. Those that that can do so with portable headphones in a commute are a minority of that minority, if not an outright statistical anomaly. Why waste space where you don't have to?
As for hassle aspect. Seriously, there is pretty much no hassle these days. Conversion is a matter of a few clicks and is stupidly fast. I just converted an album from FLAC to 320CBR MP3 in all of 15 seconds. You'll likely spend more time copying over the larger FLAC files than you will simply converting directly to the phone's storage.
Take comfort in that fact - the best of anything will always prove popular. Good things come to he who waits.
Indeed. Phone must be selling very well either way.
We're getting to a point now where mobile releases have very little between them. They're essentially already pocket rockets that do everything under the sun. If they just improve night photography and battery life with the next Galaxy device, I'm not really sure what else people would even really need. I'll be honest, I'm quite content with my S5 (though Lollipop has messed it up somewhat). The S6 upgrade is basically a luxury impulse buy, and because my contracts are 12 month one's, which just happen to coincide with each new release.
roflwaffles
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The camera on the S6 is actually much better than the Z3 IMO and the screen blows the Z3 screen away. The biggest edge the Z3 has is battery life + I think the build looks better aesthetically.
Low-light shots on the S6 are very impressive indeed. I don't think you'll be disappointed.
Thanks for this recommendation! Saw it in the Event thread and mine just came in yesterday; feels much better than the free case I got from Verizon. I normally go caseless but the camera protrusion... T_T
A lot of phones have this DAC I thought
PipefishUK
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I like the design of the Z3 better - even though it seems to be almost the same as their last few phones. Plus, having a battery that actually lasts is amazing. I can get 18 - 24 hours out of it with quite heavy use.
When you're actively using it, the battery looks like it's going down fast. But when it's in your pocket the battery meter doesn't budge at all. Even with loads of stuff auto updating.
Charles Brandon
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Huh. So suddenly I tonk my GPS works. Weird. I'll see what happens when I drove to work tomorrow.
Charles Brandon
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Fucking keyboard is shit though LOL
brandonh83
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Yeah, not a big deal or anything. Just trying to learn some facts.
Every year i buy the new galaxy S. I've been doing this since S2.
I was happy with my S5. Told everone this year would be different. S6 wasn't worth it.
Now i'm holding the S6 in my hand. I'm helpless...
My intention was to buy the edge version. I was in love when i saw the pictures. But with it actually in my hand, i didn't like it. The screen looks smaller because of the edges. And it was way more expensive than the regular one.
So i went with the standard S6. Got the gold variant. It looks like something between silver and gold actually. It looks like it's made of metal. I like it.
I was happy with my S5. Told everone this year would be different. S6 wasn't worth it.
Now i'm holding the S6 in my hand. I'm helpless...
My intention was to buy the edge version. I was in love when i saw the pictures. But with it actually in my hand, i didn't like it. The screen looks smaller because of the edges. And it was way more expensive than the regular one.
So i went with the standard S6. Got the gold variant. It looks like something between silver and gold actually. It looks like it's made of metal. I like it.
The Faceless Master
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Zalusithix
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You own stock in Samsung? =P
sometimes i game
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That's my issue with the Edge. I tried it out at the store and holy shit, the glare. There's glare on one, if not both, sides, and it's distracting and blocking text or other elements.
Zalusithix
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Once you begin actually using it, you get used to tuning out the typical levels of glare. In practice it's also rare for it to get to the point where it actually completely blocks text or anything else as most content is inset from the edges. It's certainly not ideal, but that's the price paid for the style.
dantevsninjas
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So I wound up going with the edge. Battery seemed to drain really quickly at first, did a factory reset and it seems to be a bit better, first 10% goes by really fast though. I have noticed that the phone seems to get pretty warm at times, even when doing stuff that isn't crazy taxing. Has anyone else seen this; is it common? Wondering if I should exchange it or not.
Zalusithix
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Battery drain aside which is hard to quantify without knowing exactly what is running on the phone, the phone will get warm. You've got a lot of power under the hood there.
I mean high ends phones. Isn't HTC still usually on top of this?
If you want good big near-stock phone for cheap, go for 1+1.
Zalusithix
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Interestingly, it appears that the S6s might be being shipped with two different rear facing camera sensors. I have the Sony identifier myself.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6/general/camera-sensors-isocell-vs-imx240-t3097817
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6/general/camera-sensors-isocell-vs-imx240-t3097817
I still can't get over how it doesn't have a comma on the main screen. Like seriously, nobody speaks English over there?
I wouldn't. Shit company and whilst the hardware looks good on paper, it's had numerous issues. The latest being a large number of users having issues with the screen and ghost touches.
Yup, stay away.
Jazzy Network
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I don't think I've ever needed a comma texting before. I don't find the need for correct punctuation on texts.
SirMossyBloke
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I always use Google Keyboard instead. Seeing someone write whole sentences without commas is awful.
Finally had a chance to hold one of these at Best Buy and it was thinner than I thought it would be. Also, regardless of whether or not the edges have any worthwhile software functionality, it just felt really nice to swipe left and right without feeling a bezel. Glare didn't bother me much and I suspect it wouldn't be too much of an issue outside of that brightly lit store environment. The screen though, the screen is godly. Performance was smooth and at times, I sometimes felt like I was swiping pieces of paper off the screen. (I have a 2013 Moto X so screen resolution would be a huge upgrade).
outunderthestars
Banned
Is there any way to make alerts turn on the screen?
Yeah I've heard enough to not want to risk it. I've looked at some more reviews and probably back on the S6 now. I mostly use my Nexus 4 1 handed and I'm not sure I want the bigger screen, the better quality of the S6 seems a bit more valuable.
But... but i didn't like the edge....
Also it was almost $300 more. I live in a god forsaken country where we pay 2 or 3 times more for everything (but pc games).
Anyway, touchwiz is better but i still don't like it. I'm using nova launcher. Built a minimalistic home screen. That's something i love about having a new cell phone. Customize everything again.
And google voice is quite handy. I've never used voice commands before because i think it's looks silly. But i can't deny it's usefull sometimes.
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
Stopped at a Best Buy and saw a new color... it was like a mirror finish. I loved it.
But I can't find it online. Is it the "platinum gold" color? Is there another, different, regular gold? Platinum Gold looked amazing.
But I can't find it online. Is it the "platinum gold" color? Is there another, different, regular gold? Platinum Gold looked amazing.
BFIB
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Yep, thats the gold.
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