Android thread V-garychencool finally rooted his phone and got ICS edition
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[QUOTE=garychencool;37835387]I showed some of my class mates the Android ICS easter egg, they were so amazed :v:[/QUOTE]
Yeah but the Jelly Bean one is better.....oh wait
[QUOTE=PyroCF;37835519]Yeah but the Jelly Bean one is better.....oh wait[/QUOTE]
When there's a fully working stable build of CM10...
[editline]28th September 2012[/editline]
Should I buy HD Widgets? I already have Beautiful Widgets...
Android thread V-ShaunOfTheLive finally bought a new (used) phone and got ICS edition
[img]http://i.imgur.com/F4xSo.png[/img]
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Oh my god. I can finally run Chrome. I have never been happier in my entire life. I am crying tears.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/2Uf1A.png[/img]
[QUOTE=ShaunOfTheLive;37837150]Android thread V-ShaunOfTheLive finally bought a new (used) phone and got ICS edition
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/F4xSo.png[/IMG]
EDIT:
Oh my god. I can finally run Chrome. I have never been happier in my entire life. I am crying tears.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/2Uf1A.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
For some reason Roboto really stands out here, never really noticed it before.
[QUOTE=PyroCF;37837381]For some reason Roboto really stands out here, never really noticed it before.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, Roboto is so sexy when you have a good DPI.
Just set my SIII to Roboto Light, looks pretty nice but pentile ruins it as it's a thin font relative to what stock is.
Oh and garrynohome, you are totally dead wrong. This thing (HTC Raider/Vivid) is incredibly smooth. Maybe not as much as the latest and greatest Exynos, but a few little "blips" when scrolling through lists don't really bother me. With a de-Sensed ICS ROM and Apex Launcher, moving between home screen pages is completely smooth, as is everything else except lists (and that's really a general Android problem that JB tries to fix with Project Butter, not a Qualcomm Snapdragon problem.)
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[QUOTE=PyroCF;37837671]Just set my SIII to Roboto Light, looks pretty nice but pentile ruins it as it's a thin font relative to what stock is.[/QUOTE]
Chalk up one win for HTC, no matter what else you say about them.
Turned off my S2 for a four hour Chem lab, turned it back on at the end of it and my battery had gone from 76% to 22%.
Anyone know of a reason why this would happen?
[QUOTE=ShaunOfTheLive;37837736]Oh and garrynohome, you are totally dead wrong. This thing (HTC Raider/Vivid) is incredibly smooth. Maybe not as much as the latest and greatest Exynos, but a few little "blips" when scrolling through lists don't really bother me. With a de-Sensed ICS ROM and Apex Launcher, moving between home screen pages is completely smooth, as is everything else except lists (and that's really a general Android problem that JB tries to fix with Project Butter, not a Qualcomm Snapdragon problem.)
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Chalk up one win for HTC, no matter what else you say about them.[/QUOTE]
My One X has a better screen and camera, that's it. I dislike using my one x now. As I've said before, it's so slow for something running on ics and unresponsive.
I just flashed clockworkmod recovery onto an Xperia S (so no external storage) without putting a ROM zip on the internal storage first, and stupidly I forgot to make a nandroid backup before I did so. So now I'm stuck with an Xperia S that just boots into CWM that I can't seem connect to my PC in a way that lets me get into the internal storage or anything.
Any ideas? I just want to get SOME form of android running on there again, enough that I can actually use the phone.
[QUOTE=ShaunOfTheLive;37837736]Oh and garrynohome, you are totally dead wrong. This thing (HTC Raider/Vivid) is incredibly smooth. Maybe not as much as the latest and greatest Exynos, but a few little "blips" when scrolling through lists don't really bother me. With a de-Sensed ICS ROM and Apex Launcher, moving between home screen pages is completely smooth, as is everything else except lists (and that's really a general Android problem that JB tries to fix with Project Butter, not a Qualcomm Snapdragon problem.)
[editline]28th September 2012[/editline]
Chalk up one win for HTC, no matter what else you say about them.[/QUOTE]
The fact that you put completely smooth and ICS in the same sentence sort of shows you aren't someone who can judge if a device really is "incredibly" or "completely" smooth, no offence intended. That's further cemented when you say you aren't bothered by the scrolling which should bother you if you are used to a high framerate environment. 30fps or even 45fps may be acceptably smooth for some people, that doesn't mean it's smooth enough or acceptable to other people.
I bet I've actually spent more time with that handset just messing around with it than you have in your current time of owning it. I always look at all the UI aspects on new devices to see what runs well and what doesn't.
[QUOTE=garrynohome;37838048]The fact that you put completely smooth and ICS in the same sentence sort of shows you aren't someone who can judge if a device really is "incredibly" or "completely" smooth, no offence intended.
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Well I'm not a writer on a review site, I'm just a person who uses a phone.
[quote]That's further cemented when you say you aren't bothered by the scrolling which should bother you if you are used to a high framerate environment. 30fps or even 45fps may be acceptably smooth for some people, that doesn't mean it's smooth enough or acceptable to other people.[/quote]
Fine, those people should get iPhones then.
[quote]which should bother you if you are used to a high framerate environment.[/quote]
I'm used to a 800 MHz Snapdragon S1 with 128 MB RAM running Froyo.
[quote]I bet I've actually spent more time with that handset just messing around with it than you have in your current time of owning it.[/QUOTE]
Well of course you have; I've only owned it for 10 hours.
I'm just saying I'm happy with it. If raging against Qualcomm floats your boat, fine, keep doing that.
[QUOTE=ShaunOfTheLive;37838288]Well I'm not a writer on a review site, I'm just a person who uses a phone.
Fine, those people should get iPhones then.
I'm used to a 800 MHz Snapdragon S1 with 128 MB RAM running Froyo.
Well of course you have; I've only owned it for 10 hours.
I'm just saying I'm happy with it. If raging against Qualcomm floats your boat, fine, keep doing that.[/QUOTE]
OK well then don't just come out and say "you are totally dead wrong" when it itself is the statement that is "dead wrong". I don't rage against Qualcomm, I actually support phone makers choosing to use Krait over a quad A9 on the basis of battery life and single threaded performance, but it's almost universally accepted that their S3 chips were behind the times.
[QUOTE=garrynohome;37838417]OK well then don't just come out and say "you are totally dead wrong" when it itself is the statement that is "dead wrong". I don't rage against Qualcomm, I actually support phone makers choosing to use Krait over a quad A9 on the basis of battery life and single threaded performance, but it's almost universally accepted that their S3 chips were behind the times.[/QUOTE]
Fine, I apologize for the wording. But I felt you misled me when I originally asked whether it was a good device (I just wanted obvious defects/deficiencies) and you told me it was horrible. So I disagree with that.
EDIT: Even the benchmark I just did put it slightly above a Galaxy Nexus, which people still buy and think is great.
EDIT2: Also, I got a great deal on it used (which I think I mentioned). If I were getting it new, then I absolutely agree that there are better phones to buy new.
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And now to slightly change the topic, some XDA developers are really cool. Google Now is supposed to a 4.1 exclusive feature, but the ICS ROM I got (4.0.3) includes it.
Any way to block or hide apps with a PIN or something? Would be handy to be able to block things like messages if someone asked to borrow my phone.
[QUOTE=reevezy67;37838809]Any way to block or hide apps with a PIN or something? Would be handy to be able to block things like messages if someone asked to borrow my phone.[/QUOTE]
This
[url]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.domobile.applock[/url]
[QUOTE=PyroCF;37837888]My One X has a better screen and camera, that's it. I dislike using my one x now. As I've said before, it's so slow for something running on ics and unresponsive.[/QUOTE]
2.17 should be pretty good for ICS. Sense 4.5 w/ JB should be even faster.
[QUOTE=ShaunOfTheLive;37837547]Yeah, Roboto is so sexy when you have a good DPI.[/QUOTE]
Is my phone screen considered as "good dpi"?
I mean Roboto isn't everywhere but close enough. It looks decent and it's much smoother than GB.
Also, Chrome still lags like shit. Clearly it's due to my low RAM.
[QUOTE=ShaunOfTheLive;37837736]Oh and garrynohome, you are totally dead wrong. This thing (HTC Raider/Vivid) is incredibly smooth. Maybe not as much as the latest and greatest Exynos, but a few little "blips" when scrolling through lists don't really bother me. With a de-Sensed ICS ROM and Apex Launcher, moving between home screen pages is completely smooth, as is everything else except lists (and that's really a general Android problem that JB tries to fix with Project Butter, not a Qualcomm Snapdragon problem.)
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Chalk up one win for HTC, no matter what else you say about them.[/QUOTE]
The Vivid is a good device but not the best.
Which is why no one really talks about it. I know a lot of people who have one, it's not really bad, but it's not really good either. I suspect terrible ROM optimization is the issue though, I have nearly flawless scrolling (okay, once everything is loaded, any network loads cause massive lag), and my homescreens almost never lag either. A Snapdragon S3 should be far better than my device.
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[QUOTE=garychencool;37839303]Is my phone screen considered as "good dpi"?
I mean Roboto isn't everywhere but close enough. It looks decent and it's much smoother than GB.
Also, Chrome still lags like shit. Clearly it's due to my low RAM.[/QUOTE]
Stay with the default browser, uses much less RAM.
[QUOTE=ShaunOfTheLive;37837150]Android thread V-ShaunOfTheLive finally bought a new (used) phone and got ICS edition
[img]http://i.imgur.com/F4xSo.png[/img]
EDIT:
Oh my god. I can finally run Chrome. I have never been happier in my entire life. I am crying tears.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/2Uf1A.png[/img][/QUOTE]
whoa
how do i make roboto this sexy
[QUOTE=Ezhik;37840703]whoa
how do i make roboto this sexy[/QUOTE]
Get an HTC with a good ROM I guess?
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[QUOTE=Hunt3r.j2;37839683]I suspect terrible ROM optimization is the issue though, I have nearly flawless scrolling (okay, once everything is loaded, any network loads cause massive lag), and my homescreens almost never lag either. A Snapdragon S3 should be far better than my device.[/QUOTE]
Well, to be honest, I've never used the stock ROM on this. It was sold to me already flashed with an AOSP-based ROM ("De-Sensed") which seems pretty fluid to me (but like I said, I've never even used anything above 800 MHz before so I have no point of comparison.)
[QUOTE=Chris220;37837890]I just flashed clockworkmod recovery onto an Xperia S (so no external storage) without putting a ROM zip on the internal storage first, and stupidly I forgot to make a nandroid backup before I did so. So now I'm stuck with an Xperia S that just boots into CWM that I can't seem connect to my PC in a way that lets me get into the internal storage or anything.
Any ideas? I just want to get SOME form of android running on there again, enough that I can actually use the phone.[/QUOTE]
Have you tried mounting USB storage from cwm? there's an option to do that somewhere in cwm, then you should be able to copy an android zip to your phone.
[QUOTE=Ezhik;37840703]whoa
how do i make roboto this sexy[/QUOTE]
Download any font changer from the market and go into /system/fonts and select Roboto Light.
Any touchwiz phone uses flipfont and i got roboto, it's nice, makes me feel less depressed that i am on GB still
[QUOTE=iCole;37841472]Have you tried mounting USB storage from cwm? there's an option to do that somewhere in cwm, then you should be able to copy an android zip to your phone.[/QUOTE]
For some reason I couldn't seem to get windows to recognise it properly. It's ok though, after hours of fiddling about I finally managed to flash a stock sony ICS rom on there with flashtool.
Thanks anyway!
Should I get the LG Optimus 4X HD or the Samsung Galaxy S3?
LG optimus costs 100 pounds less then the S3 and has a 1.5 Ghz Quad core processor while the S3 has much better battery life, 2X more internal storage and runs Jellybean.
Get the Optimus 4X only if you hate updates. LG takes exactly forever to release anything. My friend has an Optimus 2X and I think it's like the only dualcore phone stuck on Android 2.3.
[B]tl;dr S3.[/B]
edit: I accidentally a part of my post; fixed now.
[QUOTE=riki2cool;37842747]Should I get the LG Optimus 4X HD or the Samsung Galaxy S3?
LG optimus costs 100 pounds less then the S3 and has a 1.5 Ghz Quad core processor while the S3 has much better battery life, 2X more internal storage and runs Jellybean.[/QUOTE]
Galaxy S3, the stock experience is very good, like it should be.
[QUOTE=Ezhik;37833418][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy_MWog3ltw&feature=player_embedded[/media]
whoever ports this to the nexus 7 is a winner
[sp]biased biased biased[/sp][/QUOTE]
[url]http://liliputing.com/2012/09/open-webos-ported-to-the-samsung-galaxy-nexus.html[/url]
Teaser.
And that's still faster than my old Sony Ericsson P1i.
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