stock rom 4.1.2 yes root. Basically nothing is disable but data 24/7 on.

the lawsuit is otw now haha...

LG copies samsung phone and design, now... even more.. the ads ! n trolls samsung pula...
from this pic... it is so obvious the big brand name LG can attract more ppl to see the ads instead of S IV lolx...

5 inch screen on the s4 is not good for me..
Because I think 5.5 inch is nice already.. anything smaller would render it redundant as one could not experience the maximum pleasure of full hd..

meaning u din disable samsung software or other things? just normal root only?

I mainly pick up calls, make calls, whatsapp, send sms, browse internet for awhile and watch video for few minutes. Oh yea, i also access facebook too....

Not to mention they included eye tracking feature on their new Optimus G Pro

yup bro, just normal root.

wow, ur battery is insane... mine stock 4.1.2 no root... 1 day need charge liao... SOT i think max also 3 hour +

it could be your awake time...use bbs and pm nehalem176. He is expert in analyzing culprit for the awake problem. Remember to set custom ref once your phone fully charge and let it be for 2hrs idling time. Then dumpfile the bbs and send it to him.....

All, I've just been notified that in Post 3, clicking on the link for teaching your keyboard new words leads to an error.



Can some of you please try clicking on that link, and any other link for a random sample test that the links are ok?

Thanks.

it's hard to judge based on just SOT bro . If u r using apps that requires heavy use of processor + GPU for example playing games like Wild Blood or NFS , your SOT time will definitely be different then those who used it for normally like social network apps .

Playing NFS and other games shows up on the Summary page. Definitely games taxing the GPU will drain the battery very quickly. But I recall some of aspire's shots showed he was playing games and still had 4-5 hrs SOT in total.

IINM, on the Note2 battery, you could like play NFS for up to 2hrs AT LEAST. That was the longest time before I took the phone away from my son

More activity around the device-du-jour

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/13/4102174/...detailed-images

The article itself is uninteresting. Please read the comments. As of right now, there are 547 comments. Many of them are fairly long writeups, and a provide a good indication of what people are thinking about Samsung's actions.

Some comments:
Oh and why does it matter what the phone looks like when almost everyone puts a case on them! Honestly! Such a materialistic world.

There is no difference in the quality of plastic Samsung uses and the Nokia/HTC ones. You just think they’re more premium just because you think the design is better. Flexible does not mean cheap.

Samsung has learned a lesson, and it’s to continue what they have been doing as it is clearly paying off. The HTC One might look great, but the SGSIV is going to outsell it 10:1 because people will recognise it when they see one.

All these years you hear Android fans mocking Apple’s designs and saying no innovation as they feel it hasn’t changed (which is completely wrong, but I won’t go there). Now Samsung does it and the phone looks exactly the same the only difference is Apple can actually make hardware and Samsung clearly can’t. Plastic (or Polycarbonate which is just a prettier word than plastic) is not innovation. Neither is simply making the display larger because you can’t fit the components in the size of the current phone.


So now using aluminum or glass is innovation? Gee, I didn’t know people only cared about which beer container material (plastic, aluminum, or glass) was used to determine innovativeness. FYI, Apple made their display bigger and the phone itself taller with the iPhone 5. Hypocrisy right there.


Aluminum doesn’t make the phone inherently better. Harder to make != innovation. I could invent a less efficient heat engine and that would not be innovation.
Uh… the design did change. Different shape, home button, camera, sides, size, thickness, etc. Plastic is not a poor material. There’s nothing to say it’s better or worse overall than glass or aluminum.
I didn’t say that the S4 was an innovative revolution and neither did I consider the iPhone 5 the pinnacle of innovation.
Only according to Apple’s press releases does 1080p not matter. Basically every review site on the planet has praised 1080p as better than the usual 300 ppi displays.


Just look around at the numerous comments, even the Samsung fans able to admit that the design has remained largely the same – the defence being that they like it.


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None of the comments are mine. I just posted them or excerpts from them for your reading pleasure. Please don't complain TL:DR

This post has been edited by joytest: Mar 14 2013, 06:04 PM

Er ..... i think u want to post this in Galaxy S4 thread right bro ? Since there's a argument over designs in there now .

Hehe ... it will also influence how Samsung wants the Note 3 to be, so I guess it's appropriate here. Maybe I'll also post in the S4 thread.

BTW, a really practical use of technology at-hand

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21769537

They attached an $8 (£5) ball lens to the handset camera lens, and used a cheap torch and double-sided tape to create an improvised microscope.
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When the results were double-checked with a laboratory light microscope, the device had managed to pick up 70% of the samples with infections present - and 90% of the heavier infections.
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"Ultimately we'd like something like this to be a useful diagnostic test. We want to put it in the hands of someone who might be able to use it," he said.

"70% (accuracy) isn't really good enough, we want to be above 80% and we're not quite there yet," he added.

"The technology is out there. We want to use materials that are affordable and easy to procure."
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Dr Bogoch and his team, which included experts from Massachusetts General Hospital and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, said the only reason he used an Apple iPhone was because it was his own handset.

"You need the ball lens to help with the magnification - but any mobile phone with a decent camera and a zoom function will be sufficient," he explained.

The smallest eggs visible using the smartphone were 40-60 micrometres in diameter.

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Any sifus here that can explain a bit better what is a "ball lens" and how small does it get? aspire2oo6 ? How can we tape one to our camera and make it a microscope too?

I read once before that we can use the lens from an old CD/DVD drive and achieve a good macro effect as well.

Rooting or not doesn't do anything for your battery life. Rooting opens the door to other magic

Read post 4.

After a long 18 days, my UAG finally ended up in safe hands

yea, LG advertisement are brighter and at top @@

this is call get used to note series phone