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So is there a camera app out there that allows the camera to take a picture faster, as in less of a delay from when you hit the trackball to when the picture is actually taken? I'm not looking for any cool effects our anything just better speed.
arodey said:
So is there a camera app out there that allows the camera to take a picture faster, as in less of a delay from when you hit the trackball to when the picture is actually taken? I'm not looking for any cool effects our anything just better speed.
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Just disable the auto-focus feature and let us know if that is what you're looking for.
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Ive been messing around for awhile now. Turning off auto focus only skips the auto focus part. Its faster but its the lag from button press to picture store that Im looking ot speed up.
If you're using the microSD card that came with the phone, toss it and buy one that's class 6 (recommended) or class 10 (if cost is no object). I bought a 4-gig class 6 uSD card from CompUSA in Fort Lauderdale last Friday for ~$16. It's WAY faster than the class 2 card that came with the phone.
Class 10 is even faster, but class 6 is currently the bang-per-buck sweet spot (still cheap, but a huge improvement over class 2). I've never seen a class 10 card for sale anywhere besides online, though I'm sure you could probably find one at a specialty camera or electronics store somewhere like midtown Manhattan, downtown Miami, etc. If you DO go all the way to 10, research the benchmarks... they are NOT all created equal. Some are DRAMATICALLY better at small, random reads & writes than others (the "class" rating only measures sequential large-file/streaming writes, like video capture).
Personally, I wish Android camera apps were smart enough to transparently buffer photos to RAM, and spool them to flash in the background instead of making you wait for one pic to be completely written to flash before allowing you to take the next one. Obviously you couldn't buffer a HUGE number of pics before exhausting the phone's ram, but I still think you could EASILY buffer at least a half-dozen pics before it even started to become an issue.
Had anybody found a touch to focus camera like htc has that could be run on froyo?
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I switched mine from 5mp to 3mp and it is a lot faster. Ya you loose some pixels but for a cell phone its still pretty good.
camera magic is a good alternative but it doesn't have a camcorder
To a black Note 16gb? I always wanted a black Note 32gb...I got a friend thats selling me one black 16gb...Wouldn't be a problem if I swap the internal MOBO from my white Note to Black Note?
It is possible but quite problematic and frankly speaking not worth the risk. Better to just add big sd card imo.
You think the board size might be different?
Will probably be the same - in every store i looked, with replacement parts, there is just 1 board for N7000 and 1 for i717 so i guess they have to be the same for both colors ( would be very surprised if they werent )
What i meant is that replacing it and putting the device back together might be very risky.
Anyway, if you're up to it, here's a nice tutorial i used to replace my friend's note's back case - might be useful for replacing the board as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFDr3PQMTxw
You know its not that tricky....The board comes out without any glue or anything..
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It is possible but quite problematic and frankly speaking not worth the risk. Better to just add big sd card imo.
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The reason I like a 32gb is because I put everything that has to do with Android in the internal 25gb. Like Apps, pictures etc...And I can shoot HD 1080p videos without using my SD card..I use the SD card just for my music collection..
Just buy a good 64g external scard.. and call it the day.
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I'm about to pull the trigger on purchasing this phone. I would like to ask if anyone out there REALLY miss having a micro SD slot or not. I've had my HTC Incredible for 4+ years now, and I've gotten used to having an easily accessible slot.
Do the HTC One owners wish they had this option on their phone? Or is it something you've gotten over, and no longer feel the need for?
Thanks!
Nope plenty of storage
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I had the HTC Incredible also, then I went with the iPhone (32GB), then to the G-Nexus (32GB), now I'm on the HTC One (also 32GB). I've gotten used to the fixed storage, and I have yet to fill it up, even with several apps (40+) and about 8 playlists saved on Spotify.
HD Videos will eat the space up like it's nothing. Ask me how I know -_-
I definitely miss it. I'm managing now but the hassle of eventually having to delete stuff for space will annoy me.
I miss it just because of how dangerous is to loose everything and cant recover it.
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How about removable battery?
Thanks for the replies! How about the lack of a removable battery?
I just know with experimenting with several ROMs, Kernels, and such, there has been need of doing a "battery pull".
Has anyone encountered a problem with this? Or is there some type of kill-switch or override built in?
Thanks again.
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Thanks for the replies! How about the lack of a removable battery?
I just know with experimenting with several ROMs, Kernels, and such, there has been need of doing a "battery pull".
Has anyone encountered a problem with this? Or is there some type of kill-switch or override built in?
Thanks again.
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Generally Power + Volume down will also do a reboot, just like pulling the battery
thekwijibo said:
I'm about to pull the trigger on purchasing this phone. I would like to ask if anyone out there REALLY miss having a micro SD slot or not. I've had my HTC Incredible for 4+ years now, and I've gotten used to having an easily accessible slot.
Do the HTC One owners wish they had this option on their phone? Or is it something you've gotten over, and no longer feel the need for?
Thanks!
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It's your call at the end of the day, everyones usage is different, some people like a lot of movies, others like games, or music, or apps.
You have to weigh up if this is enough for you. For me I always keep to my means.
32GB is plenty when you think about it, just don't keep un needed apps on your phone and honestly i don't think anyone needs 10,000 mp3's
So with a little juggling you can have a large library of apps, games, movies, pics and music with a load of space left over.
I'm around 12GB away but i know i could max it out if i installed all my apps, I just install what i need and if i need anything else then i can download it, keeps the phone nice and neat with little bloat too.
I had quite a few reservations before buying this phone but i'm glad that i did now, this year the One is the one to beat and for me it's the better buy between itself and it's nearest competitior which is the SGS4, the build quality, the audio, the screen, the overall look of the device is just mind blowing.
Only gripes i have is that it "DOES" get hot when you stress it, you notice it a lot more because of the aluminium chassis, the battery isn't as good as i'd have hoped and the BT stack is good old HTC's limited version rather than the one used on stock android or even samsung and other phones.
That last one is a personal gripe because i like to play tekken 3 with a ps3 controller but the Moga Pro is a decent replacement even if it is £40
Also the camera isn't great, although in low light it's suprisingly good and it picks up picture where'as the likes of the note 2 only gets a black screen.
Overall it's a beast of a handset and the battery being locked in is something that you'll get used to, forcing a reboot is simply a case of holding power until it goes off.
I've never used an SD card even in phones where I had the option! I hardly store anything on my phone but the 25-odd GB on the One is more than enough for me
I use a Mac and I miss not being able to simply mount my phone as an external storage. I can use the Andriod File Transfer utility, and I do, but it's kinda buggy and not convenient.
As far as the size of storage goes, it's plenty.
I know we all love this phone, it is awesome. Super Fast, Super intuitive stock android, Super pretty, but lets be honest What's the one issue that Makes you want to get rid of the phone and never look back.
I didn't know how important a microsd card was to me until I used this phone. I used to have my entire music collection on my GS4 and while I still have online access to everything, I really miss not having to use up all my data and really being able to listen to anything anytime anywhere. Also pinning music for offline use through Google music sucks when you have thousands upon thousands of tracks and might forget what you have and haven't saved for offline play.
What's your issue that made you rethink your purchase for a slit second.
I knew there was no sd card going in and embraced it. I think it's easier to keep track of what's on storage and I obviously bought a 32 GB.
No complaints with the phone here. Well except I would have bought a red one.
Oh, ibl
Complaining isn't going to help.
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What's your issue that made you rethink your purchase for a slit second.
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nothing
I haven't rethought at all. As is a small bugbear but it hasn't made me rethink
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For the average user, most phone companies now are not including an SD card on pretty much all of their phones (except samsung.) With cloud storage and high speed internet available at your finger tips, just stream it all. Google will let you store like 20,000 songs free and stream them. It may be a strain on your data plan, but if you're at home or the office, just use wifi.
The point of the fact is, if 16GB isn't enough, they make you buy the 32GB phone. If that still isn't enough for you, they recommend you use their services and apps to fill in the gap.
For me it's not having USB audio on stock.
Many people have no idea what this means, and even if they did it wouldn't matter to them, but to music quality snobs such as myself, it really irks me.
Especially because iphones have usb audio.
Cyanogen and probably some other roms support usb audio so it is possible to get with this phone
But I really feel this should be on stock android, and on every single phone.
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For the average user, most phone companies now are not including an SD card on pretty much all of their phones (except samsung.) With cloud storage and high speed internet available at your finger tips, just stream it all. Google will let you store like 20,000 songs free and stream them. It may be a strain on your data plan, but if you're at home or the office, just use wifi.
The point of the fact is, if 16GB isn't enough, they make you buy the 32GB phone. If that still isn't enough for you, they recommend you use their services and apps to fill in the gap.
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This. ^^^^^^^^^^^
To the OP, may I offer a suggestion:
Use a large portion of your internal storage to store the albums/tracks you listen to w/ the most frequency, and leave the online storage for the remainder. Obviously you can swap between the two whenever you'd like, but seems like it would make the most sense given the fact that you still decided to go w/ a N5.
May not serve your "any track, any time, anywhere" purpose fully, but will save you data and still allow you quick access to a good portion of your media.
I have to say, the limitation on storage does not bother me in the slightest. Sure it would be -nice- to be able to expand the storage, but in this day and age, data is getting cheaper and cheaper, and services that stream media are getting better and easier to use.
Why do we need more storage? how many apps are you truly going to install? how much music do you really need to take with you at all times?
personally, I have a network attached storage, which does owncloud. Through this, and the owncloud app, I stream all of my media to my phone wherever I am.
One could also use a service such as dropbox, or even just listen to online radio streams or even watch netflix for movies.
"The Cloud" is all the rage these days, and it's getting more and more cost effective to use such services. So really, why do we need an SD slot? why do we need additional storage?
I have a 128 GB USB drive attached to my key chain, and a USB otg cable in my wallet all the time... No need for an sd card here... Just wish there was an i r blaster
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EnIXmA said:
I have a 128 GB USB drive attached to my key chain, and a USB otg cable in my wallet all the time... No need for an sd card here... Just wish there was an i r blaster
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That'll do it right there.
I was preaching this a year ago when people were bagging in the HTC One and no SDcard slot. LOL
I have the 16 gig and no issue.... well it's because I have Sprint and have decent service in Houston so pulling anything from/to the cloud is a no worries situation for me!!
Get one of these.
http://www.meenova.com/
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78Dopd9we34
+1 for meenova, I use it almost everyday
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EnIXmA said:
I have a 128 GB USB drive attached to my key chain, and a USB otg cable in my wallet all the time... No need for an sd card here... Just wish there was an i r blaster
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Yup, who needs an elegant solution like MicroSD card when we can carry USB drives and OTG cables :good:
your thread name is misleading. love is unconditional, period. if you have conditions to get your love, that isnt love. you dont love your phone. i love my nexus 5, with every perfection and misperfection it has
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I have edited the title because I think I am giving people the wrong impression. The point I was making is that even though somthing is awesome, because we are all individuals and this is a mass market device there are bound to be things about the phone that erk us, maybe its only an issue to you. I didn't intend this to be an sd card complaint thread, Just a chance for everyone to vent their idiosyncrasies.
The nexus 5 is probably the best phone I've used/owned hands down. No regrets whatsoever
I definitely love this phone. I came from the Note 3 and do not miss that phone one bit although it wasn't a bad phone either. I have more than enough gigabytes (32gb) and if I felt that 32gb wasn't enough then I would of stuck with the Note 3 (which has expandable memory) or bought a phone that offered expandable memory.
I do not agree with streaming from the cloud as alternative unless you have a true unlimited 4g/LTE plan. Also I would hate to walk around with USB OTG as an option. OP next time get a phone with expandable memory or hope they make the N6 in a 64gb version.
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The battery is underpowered imo
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I hate the headphone jack at the top.
Whatchu talking bout willis!
I have a very large music collection. All of the tracks are in a mySQL database. I made a little bash script that randomly selects about 8gb at a time and copies the tracks to the phone. I am more than satisfied.
Hi,
Just wondering if you notice any difference watching 1080p or 720p movies on your phone?
Of course screen is even bigger than fullhd.
But stil interesting does it worth copying 8GB files to my phone or not? Processing bigger files battery will suffer as well.
What resolution movies or TV series do you watch with Note 4?
Interesting question. I think in terms of CPU usage and storage, bitrate is more important than resolution.
I think for CPU I would think it's marginal, but would love to see some tests on this.
I'll probably stick with above average 720 just for storage considerations. I don't watch that many movies on phone, but that could change with my first phablet.
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bat0nas said:
Hi,
Just wondering if you notice any difference watching 1080p or 720p movies on your phone?
Of course screen is even bigger than fullhd.
But stil interesting does it worth copying 8GB files to my phone or not? Processing bigger files battery will suffer as well.
What resolution movies or TV series do you watch with Note 4?
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Loads of HD720P vids and movies on mine, and they look great, got some HD1080P which looks more detailed and 2 4K vids, those look extremely realistic.
It would make sense that the higher the resolution the better the picture, even with a ~5" screen. I mean, have you looked at the way your photos look on your screen? Beautiful.
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It would make sense that the higher the resolution the better the picture, even with a ~5" screen. I mean, have you looked at the way your photos look on your screen? Beautiful.
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Of course it makes sense.
But maybe 8gb fullhd movie doesnt look so much better than 720p 2GB file of the same movie.
So I want to know have any of you really tested that.
It also impactsco the SD card size to choose.
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Hi,
Just wondering if you notice any difference watching 1080p or 720p movies on your phone?
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Well I was addressing this question. And the answer I was trying to give you is: of course there are noticeable differences between 1080p, 720p and 4K quality, on the Note 4.
bat0nas said:
Of course it makes sense.
But maybe 8gb fullhd movie doesnt look so much better than 720p 2GB file of the same movie.
So I want to know have any of you really tested that.
It also impactsco the SD card size to choose.
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I'm sure you could have guessed this, an 8GB full HD movie file is not going to look "so much better" than a 720p 1.5GB movie file. But going back to my first point, of course there is a noticeable difference -- a noticeable difference. But I mean, it really comes down to your preference then doesn't it?
Summary:
4k video on your phone is gonna look better than 1080p.
1080p video on your phone is gonna look better than 720p.
The higher the resolution, the bigger the file.
Whether you feel the better quality vs file size is worth it on a 6" screen is up to you, so on and so forth.
You need to form your own opinion and/or choice.
Me personally? I go with the 1080p. I'll sacrifice some of my 64GB SD card storage on movie files since I delete the movies after I watch them anyway. The screen's too nice for me not to. Again, that's just me.
Pick up an OTG cable ..save ur movies on a hard disk and use that to watch ur movies without worrying about ur phone storage
How otg cable is related to how good movies look on Note4 screen?
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Pick up an OTG cable ..save ur movies on a hard disk and use that to watch ur movies without worrying about ur phone storage
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I sort of wonder how that would affect battery life. The earliest portable hard drives used to require separate AC adapters. More modern ones have been able to eliminate the need for the AC adapter, but it sort of seems like they still draw a good amount of power to spin the disk inside.
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How otg cable is related to how good movies look on Note4 screen?
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Summary:
The higher the resolution, the better the picture.
The higher the resolution, the larger the video file.
The larger the video file, the less storage you have on your phone for other things.
So, what Teardrop suggested is to buy an on the go adapter and with that, carry a portable hard drive with you.
With the high capacity of storage in a portable hard drive, you can have as large of video files as you want.
(I'm not a fan of this suggestion).
yes it does affect the battery ...i have a Tab S hooked up in car and i use it to watch movies and i noticed on the Tab S the battery consumption is almost double planning to buy this LAVA SimulCharge USB 1-port Adapter for Samsung Galaxy Tab 4/S/PRO/Note - Model TL-002 (Micro USB OTG Host & Charge) hopefully then i dont have to worry about battery life
You can buy an otg y cable, and just hook a small battery bank to it, just to save your phone.
Or why not just go mad on micro sd cards, you can buy otg card readers that work well.
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Or why not just go mad on micro sd cards, you can buy otg card readers that work well.
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I'm definitely more of a fan of this idea. Buy a larger SD card or if you need, even two). Put your video files on that if you're gonna go somewhere where you'll want to kill some time with some movies/videos. Who honestly is going to want to keep their movie files on their phone after they've already watched it? That just seems silly to me *shrug*
Dude... You can watch 4k video on this phone? I'm so excited right now. Gonna download some random 4k video to try this out lolol
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It has 4k screen.. but will it play thats a different question
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It has 4k screen.. but will it play thats a different question
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Not quite, it's a 2560×1440 putting it Inbetween 4k and 1080p.
It should be called a wqhd more than anything.
My mistake. Screen is indeed not 4K.