Average user I would say unnecessary unless you want better performance, improved battery life, nicer display n better camera. Your choice n you decide yourself
The TW additional stuffs is mainly gimmicky n unrefined as stated

Don't waste your money on this Hyperion brand - firstly the power figure is questionable and secondly it gets pregnant easily in just over 3-4 months usage. The price alone will tell you that it is not going to be top quality
have a bad experience using it in the S2. For battery strongly you guys buy back original to protect your RM2k phone
And if you do buy such advisable to charge it outside of the phone

This post has been edited by benny888: Apr 29 2013, 06:59 PM

Performance of course is better than S3 by a wide margin. Just see the benchmark figures to have an idea :
Quadrant 12000-13000 vs 6000+ ; AntuTu 21000-22000 vs 15000-16000. Well these are just numbers but you gotta feel the additional increase in performance only when you are using it

Battery life : I estimate it at least 50 % better as the battery size alone is about 20+ % bigger. And with its lower chip operating at 1.2 Ghz for most commonly used tasks ( eg call, SMS, tweets etc ) this will be an additional advantage. Phone still new and cannot give you exact numbers. Example just 3G/H browsing, battery drain is 15-18%/hour ( download speeds at 4000-5000 kbps Maxis) vs 25-30% on the S3. And the S4 is very , very obviously cooler in operation vs the obviously hotter S3 , another contributing factor to better battery life

Display you gotta see for yourself to be impressed - must say this is Samsung finest I have seen
Camera - it is 13 MP vs 8 MP : I'd say the improvement might be not much but the added camera features is great and these depends whether you want to use it or not only

This post has been edited by benny888: Apr 29 2013, 07:12 PM

The words life companion can be change to whatever words you want including the fonts type/color

I stay in small town-lah unlike you in KL. Fiber optics - dream only. Even UniFi also don't have and was told probably only over the next 2 years only . I was on Streamyx previously with horrible download speeds 600-1000 kbps and now switch to P1 which is a sight improvement at 2000-3000 kbps ONLY. Compare to my 3G/H+ on Maxis , easily 4000-8000 kbps and at some places in town I can even hit 10000 kbps

Just recieved Samsung SMS warranty confirmation. Not bad , just need to wait only 2 days for them to respond back

The seller is supposed to do it for you. If he does it on the spot , you will get the response back within a few minutes. Obviously for my case , they were just too busy to do it on the spot as they were busy selling the new phone. Went there at 12 pm and at even 7 pm , the queue still quite long with customers waiting for theirs

Scratch test on the S4



This post has been edited by benny888: Apr 29 2013, 07:47 PM

I doubt is genuine as similar price range are imitation through ebay
Original from spigen is rm70+ n dont understand how 3rd party can sell cheaper unless is imitation . Check ebay plenty such imitations rm40-50 range

Spigen site

http://www.spigen.com/galaxy-s4-case-slim-armor.html

This reviewer is actually a iphone guy. Reading his you would think he is being paid by Samsung
He got slam several times in the past as he was very critical about android

http://bgr.com/2013/04/24/samsung-galaxy-s4-review-448039/

That offer only for those preorder
On the day I collected it they sell the flipcase for rm129 for walkin customer n rm2199 for phone

Which thread . So childish behaviour from a 50+ year old chap
A forumer so described him after meeting him I remember to transact a S3 sale

Last Saturday I already saw several shops there selling such stuffs. Gotta look around. Sorry cannot remember their names

KuLi aka koolee lah. He mess up the user list n added me in several times as "benny888 is a gay". This chap really hates me probably cos I always refute his nonsensical blabbering in the apple iphone n S3/note/note2 threads. Got tired if arguing with him n let other users do it . To me his behaviour is just childish , with a kid brain in a 50+ body. Not surprised he will reincarnate again n continue his android bashing

Just rooted and installed clockworkmod recovery: whole process took less than a minute

Use Odin in PC to flash the root tar file. After reboot, boot back to recovery and select root phone. Restart - clockwork mod and supersu working fine. Tested and work fine with Titanium Backup. Now testing backup rom using recovery mode

Odin flashing :



Clockworkmod recovery installed


http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2255652

TS : please post in page 1 to guide new users

This post has been edited by benny888: Apr 30 2013, 09:39 AM

One S3 user reported meeting him up to transact I believe a S3. He said he was a very rude 50+ year old guy

I don't think app2sd works now even on rooted Jellybean phones
Google it and there are several ways to move Gameloft data files to external sdcard while the main app remains in the internal memory
Other possible solutions : directory bind and folder mount etc
But I believe soon, you will see a mod to swap external Sdcard as internal memory ( works well on S3 and Note 2)

Absolutely NO lag running it from external Sdcard. Your rom is still inside internal memory. Only most of the apps are installed into the external sdcard. You can safely remove the external sdcard but of course some apps cannot run if you do that. Read more about this in my BLOG . I can say 99% of users who did the swap are happy with it ; those that have issues I have no idea what went wrong. If they follow my instructions strictly, shouldn't have any issues.

After root with CWM recovery status, when you boot to download mode , you will see Custom ( no longer Official ) under Current Binary and System Status . There is no flash counter reading

REMINDER : Rooting will NOT wipe any data from phone. Is a very safe process. Make sure your phone battery at least 50% charge. Be mentally prepare rooting will void warranty. However I have been lucky in past 5 times over 4 years, warranty was still honoured ( have change sim module. usb connector, motherboard, re flash stock rom )

Just completed my nandroid backup - took about 20+ mins . CWM is really slow - I will replace this recovery with TWRP
A massive 4.65 GB backup on the external Sdcard ( as I have installed about 100 apps)
Now time to remove all the Samsung bloatware

Pocketnow.com comparison between Snapdragon and Exynos model

Summary : exynos generally more powerful and slight better battery life




http://pocketnow.com/2013/04/30/galaxy-s-4..._medium=twitter

This post has been edited by benny888: Apr 30 2013, 07:27 PM