some impressions after using it since saturday, stock ROM, bricked kernel, stock recovery

battery life averages around 3-4 hours SOT with mixed wifi & LTE usage
i think it will get better after i set it up properly, currently I'm on bricked kernel with Fauxclock, min CPU frequemcy set to 96khz, let's see where it goes from here

this thing is fast, nuff said
i've been flashing stuff on it the whole yesterday night, and it never takes longer than 2 minutes, you can't imagine my happiness, as someone who came from a galaxy S

screen is sharp, with no dead pixels or backlight bleed, the contrast is definitely not as high as galaxy S as you can see the grey when the phone is booting up, but the colours are all very nice, and it's bright, too bright, i had to set it to minimun brightness when indoors

speakers I can't really comment, except that i do miss notifications when I'm outside

camera is very slow, and results not satisfying. Currently I'm using camera FV-5 as default camera for better performance. and the viewfinder on the stock camera app is really annoying as it crops out your picture to fit the screen aspect ratio, this means you get stuff in your picture that you never intended

all in all, money well spent, I'm happy

I know, I guess we can hope for the day where amoleds get as efficient as lcds

More on the screen: I hope Google fixes the auto brightness
The screen has a very wide range of brightness, but auto brightbess only adjusts in a very narrow range, and its worse that it adjusts too bright for almost every situation, this ends up killing the battery

thanks for the suggestion, will try it out and report


As of now, I'm using Faux kernel + Faux123 app + his recommended settings on his G+ page
s2w/d2w disabled
left it alone after chargning to 100% while I use the laptop
until now: 3h08min -2%
I think i'll be keeping this set up

for those that have tried out Bricked kernel and want to switch to other kernels, remember to flash the uninstall .zip from the author's xda thread. not doing so will cause other kernels to not work and severe battery drain.

This post has been edited by Tsukiyomi001: Dec 3 2013, 04:11 AM

Oops, left out a very important point, paiseh

It's on Wi-Fi

battery life report
been at home all day, so wifi is connected the whole time

unpluged since around 12am today, don't remember the exact time
please don't mind the "6hrs 38m 53s on battery", since i think it got resetted when i reboot the phone, you can see the gap in the chart

Battery processes http://i.imgur.com/NIhJGJh.png?1
SOT http://i.imgur.com/sziueje.png?1
Graph http://i.imgur.com/o6xi0xw.png?1

I'll test the mixed usage when I have the chance


that's a nice target to aim for, but wouldn't that affect your upgrades and push services if they don't run in the background?


and guys, i have a problem with Asphalt 8: Airborne
the game runs fine for he first time, but on the second and consecutive lauches, the game won't register any input
i can still here the music and scroll, but no taps are registered
anyone has this problem?

also, there was a small hiccup when it launches, the graphics will freeze and music stops, for about 1 second or so

This post has been edited by Tsukiyomi001: Dec 3 2013, 09:04 PM

double post

This post has been edited by Tsukiyomi001: Dec 3 2013, 09:02 PM

i see, i can get it to work again after clearing user data, but the thing repeats itself

looking good, the verge mentions "in a few days", hope it arrives in time for christmas

needs stock kernel

reporting about 4.4.1 camera updated performance
camera is now faster, and finally usable, previously it was painfully slow
autofocus and saving are both faster, picture quality seems better too

my top 3 players are
1. mx player
2. v player
3. bs player
all 3 have gesture controls for brightness & volume, hw or sw decoding selection, and good subtitle support, but somehow mx player manages to play some files better than the other 2, v player is a bit off, bs player a bit more off, but all 3 are good

This post has been edited by Tsukiyomi001: Dec 7 2013, 05:42 PM

Reaaally?! Imma try it now!

Strange, can't get the phone to boot into ART, selected ART from developer options and clicked OK, but still boots using dalvik

I'm on custom recovery & kernel & 30% battery, does any of these matter?

This post has been edited by Tsukiyomi001: Dec 8 2013, 09:33 AM

ah.... i see, so i'll most probably need stock kernel and minus xposed to get ART working...
oh well, bummer, i'll stick with dalvik for now

i think it's ok to get it now, the 'problems' you see in the forums are but a fraction of the total shipment volume, and so far none of the units being revied by tech sites have any problem with them, so it's safe that the problematic units are few in between

and you should clearly define the 'problems'
bad speaker is a hardware limitation, LG just used a cheap unit for their limited budget
screen cracks easily when dropped face down happens to almost all mordern smartphones
things you should be worry about are dead pixels or backlight bleed, but those are really really few

Root>xposed framework>app settings [module]> set dpi to something between 360 to 485, default is 485

use another usb port/cable, i was struggling in the same situation for over an hour and it turns out my cable is faulty

really sorry to hear that, but have you tried using different USB cables?

battery stats get resetted whenever you reboot or reach full charge, as to why it resets when reboot, i forgot, it's something to do with how android stores its data

Best news I've heard today, any news on which band they're gonna use? Umobile piggybacks on maxis network, hopefully coverage and speed will be good

is mx player working on 4.2.2 yet?