thanks for ur reply..
btw.. do u recommend to buy with contract or without contract?

Sorry for noob question. Anyone has aa good keyboard app to recommend. Can type good Chinese predictive text and also has the one like Samsung keyboard that has numbers on the top. The stock samsung keyboard sucks when typing Chinese character. Tx.

My camera make the phone restart again. I think got problem la the camera apps. Even open camera very slow. Tried my fren also the same.

I did email samsung regarding this. They said it may be cause of the ram usage too high that's why camera restart. Ask me to bring to samsung service center if problem persist

It depends on each person and their requirements. Depending on the plan you choose, you could either save money in the long run or be spending more money compared to outright + cheaper plan. It depends on what trade off you are willing to accept to save money. I have very little familiarity with malaysian postpaid contract plans so I can't really advice you on that. I have always been buying my phones outright. My malaysian number has been on the same old plan which provides very good value for more than 6 years haha.

This post has been edited by Hikari0307: May 12 2013, 12:04 AM

yes..when viewing photo through camera apps also reboot..

Also more importantly, samsung has not been releasing proper documentation on previous exynos chips thus making custom rom difficult. I doubt anything will change with current exynos in i9500.

In contrast, documentation for qualcomm chips are top notch. Making custom rom for snapdragon's (such as i9505) are far easier.

Yes.

oh ya! just realised u are from Brisbane, izzit?
hahaha.. i'm still thinking of signing a contract or not..
but seems, i gonna wait for the LTE version dy..

Anyone planning to send it to service center.. As the lag when opening either the camera or gallery really annoying ...

This post has been edited by silencer: May 12 2013, 12:42 AM

not camera is restart, is like whole phone restart...

I got this suggestion from xda forum :

Go to developer options and change "limit background processes" to 4

but if u doing multitasking on your phone, better avoid this..

i encountered similar issue twice yesterday

Okay, so last Wednesday, I had some majorly frequent S4 restarting issues. Each time I used the camera (especially switching from back to front camera), it will freeze and reboot itself. I couldn't even use the barcode scanner without it freezing itself up. I did a FDR but the problem still persisted.

On Thursday, I called the Samsung Call Centre and was dealt with a very impatient person who looked forward to ending the call than helping a customer

So, I took my phone to Samsung @ Gardens (KL) as they have a technician there for software related issues. I was told that they will help me to reinstall the entire software and it would take up to 2 hours. I had asked on what was the difference between a re-installation of the software and a FDR. They mentioned something about FDR only affects one section/partition where else the re-installation will be from A-Z (Maybe someone here can shed some light on how true this is).

I wasn't able to find out more on the cause of the random reboot as by the time my phone was ready, the technician had gone home.

I've been actively testing the camera out and so far, it was alright. I thought it was fixed until it restarted itself again today.... -.-

But the re-installation did reduce the frequency of the random reboot. So probably it is a software related issue? I'm not sure.

I feel like we should gather everyone who is facing this issue and march into the service centre together lol.

my RAM usage on average is about 1.1gb with 5 apps running in the background.

This is super high right?

Are you testing the phone without any other Apps installed for these couple of days?

Or you already started to put in your favourite Apps?

This is important as to find out if any Apps (even if running in background) causing the issue. If there are other Apps, we can't tell for sure if it is problem with the firmware or other Apps.

Hi guys, I'm a iphone user wanting to switch to android. I have a question regarding the S4.

Is it possible to root the phone to run stock android and still keep the Samsung features like airview, smart stay, smart pause, etc..??

I can tell you honestly.. this is a software issue since alot of people are facing this. Its not a hardware defect. Even I have had a few force reboots when opening up the camera, but this is random la. I am sure this will be addressed in the next software update from Samsung. You guys can go ahead and give it in, but in all honesty, I am sure they are going to do the same as above:

1)format and install the software over
2)give some stupid lame arse excuse which is dumb
3)slight improvement.

Just wait it out and see if there are any updates from Samsung about the matter, because honestly.. its not only one or two people that are having this issue.. its actually alot of folks.

Yes definitely
Rooting will not change / delete any stuffs
It allow you admin access only

Sorry typo. Is phone restart. They said maybe ram usage too high. I did clear ram before open camera so far ok but is annoying to clear ram before using camera especially there is a moment when u need to take a pic urgently. Ish

yeah... samsung plz come out with a fix.. other stuffs is that the batt usage dunno why so high.. i put my fb sync 2hr edi but still eat alot.. dunno wat is the problem. maybe wan to do factory reset.

This post has been edited by ben3003: May 12 2013, 09:23 AM