I know similar threads have already been made, but having had no experience with the Galaxy S, I was just going to ask a few questions with have not really been answered in some cases:
1. Are there any custom ROMs for the Galaxy S that get rid of TouchWiz in favour of a Google Android experience?
2. Samsung has recently announced that it will release Gingerbread for the Galaxy S. Is it likely that this will be running TouchWiz, or will it be similar to the ROM on the Nexus S?
3. Will it be straightforward for the community to port ROMs from the Nexus S, seeing as it has almost identical hardware to the Galaxy?
4. Is it possible to use the front facing camera in Skype?
5. Is the build quality on par with the HTC Desire?
The software in my opinion is the main issue with the Galaxy S, so it would be really helpful if someone could give me some insight into what is going on in the Galaxy S community. So far I have only had experience in the HTC Desire forums.
Thanks,
unnddd
First of all, galaxy s is way much better than desire!
1. Yes it is!
2. Yes of course!
3. I don't think so, but we already have good custom rom's
4. Don't known.
5. no, htc desire has a little better build quality. for me galaxy has a very good built quality!
I switched from my htc desire to the samsung galaxy s for about a week, and then switched right back to my desire!
The software on htc's desire is still greater than the galaxy s, as the desire works out of the box, and galaxy s needs a lagfix just to be able to run as smoothly.
The build quality feels much cheaper on the galaxy s, but I dont believe there's too much difference in actual quality, mainly the feel of it. The galaxy s has a slightly better screen and slightly better specs inside (not really enough to justify the switch)
All in all though, it's up to you whether you really want to change. If you feel like something's missing from the desire, then maybe go into a phone store and try one out, for the feel of it, and if you like, go ahead and take the plunge
Thanks for your opinion, but can you clarify your response to my second question. I don't know if you mean that it will have TouchWiz or it won't.
Thanks
cereal86 said:
First of all, galaxy s is way much better than desire!
1. Yes it is!
2. Yes of course!
3. I don't think so, but we already have good custom rom's
4. Don't known.
5. no, htc desire has a little better build quality. for me galaxy has a very good built quality!
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Thanks for your opinion, but can you clarify your response to my second question. I don't know if you mean that it will have TouchWiz or it won't.
Thanks
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Most likely it WILL have touchwiz , but i think by the time Samsung makes official Gingerbread update , there will be unnofficial one from Nexus S (still nobody knows for sure).
Thanks. And how easy is it to install custom ROMs without TouchWiz on the Galaxy S?
If you're running stock - Desire (apart from the incredible SuperAmoLED screen on the Galaxy S)
If you're running a Custom Rom - Samsung Galaxy S most DEFINITELY!
Installation of custom roms is incredibly easy these days.
Yes it is. NFT
At this point of time, you'd honestly be better off waiting for Dual core Mobiles. It's an upgrade, but you need to ask yourself if you truly need the new features.
When are dual core mobiles going to start coming out? I was actually thinking of waiting for HTC's next flagship device running Gingerbread. Anyone have any idea when such a device might be released?
If you don't like TW, you can always download LauncherPro. It looks/feels more like stock Android.
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Some are apparently expected by end of year (at least thats what LG claimed in Sept). However, unsure about Android ones.
If you have plenty of money, go ahead and upgrade if you want. But unless you need 720p recording, and want the superior touch performance of the Galaxy, at this time, I think it's worth waiting
Don't go for the SGS if you have a Desire.
The difference isn't worth the money.
Wait for dualcores that will come next year.
2011 is gonna be a good year for phones, and you should hold on for a good upgrade
Depends if you already own a HTC Desire. I have owned a HTC Desire for a few months, and switched to a Galaxy because it was thrown in free with a provider change.
If you already own a Desire, you'll probably will not be totally satisfied with the Samsung Galaxy S.
- despite the Amoled screen, much cooler colours on the Galaxy (white is blueish),
- software just isn't working as smoothly as with HTC (unless you install the latest JPU firmware which makes it on par),
- i miss the optical trackpad now and then
On the plus side:
+ very active ROM community, you could flash several new ROMS and kernels a day
+ better battery life (with the right setup)
+ larger screen
+ much better graphics performance in games
+ Allshare (play photo's & videos straight to your Samsung TV)
I used to rleally like HTC Sense, but with Launcherpro on the Galaxy, there isn't that much difference.
My conclusion: if you already have a HTC Desire, upgrade to the Desire HD, or wait for the Galaxy S2
unnddd said:
I know similar threads have already been made, but having had no experience with the Galaxy S, I was just going to ask a few questions with have not really been answered in some cases:
1. Are there any custom ROMs for the Galaxy S that get rid of TouchWiz in favour of a Google Android experience?
2. Samsung has recently announced that it will release Gingerbread for the Galaxy S. Is it likely that this will be running TouchWiz, or will it be similar to the ROM on the Nexus S?
3. Will it be straightforward for the community to port ROMs from the Nexus S, seeing as it has almost identical hardware to the Galaxy?
4. Is it possible to use the front facing camera in Skype?
5. Is the build quality on par with the HTC Desire?
The software in my opinion is the main issue with the Galaxy S, so it would be really helpful if someone could give me some insight into what is going on in the Galaxy S community. So far I have only had experience in the HTC Desire forums.
Thanks,
unnddd
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1. Touch wiz is not that bad. It's much more than the launcher. I prefer touch wiz ui with launcher pro. Touch wiz launcher is too iphonish for me.
5. I prefer galaxy over htc desire, once you lag fix it you'd never like to come back to smaller screen, hardly visible in direct sunlight.
Another advantage is swype, works flawless and speeds up text input.
Sound quality is far better than htc desire, loudspeaker, headphones, etc.
Camera is better, picture quality
And last but not least graphics performance at least twice better.
I own both devices, desire is better out of the box but with little and simple tweaking galaxy wins in all categories.
The top #1 advantage of desire is amount of Ram, galaxy has much less free memory.
Top #2 is flash, no way to use galaxy as flashlight
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rdy2go said:
1. Touch wiz is not that bad. It's much more than the launcher. I prefer touch wiz ui with launcher pro. Touch wiz launcher is too iphonish for me.
5. I prefer galaxy over htc desire, once you lag fix it you'd never like to come back to smaller screen, hardly visible in direct sunlight.
Another advantage is swype, works flawless and speeds up text input.
Sound quality is far better than htc desire, loudspeaker, headphones, etc.
Camera is better, picture quality
And last but not least graphics performance at least twice better.
I own both devices, desire is better out of the box but with little and simple tweaking galaxy wins in all categories.
The top #1 advantage of desire is amount of Ram, galaxy has much less free memory.
Top #2 is flash, no way to use galaxy as flashlight
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Cheers for that. I now know that it was a mistake getting the Desire instead of the Samsung. However, the problem with getting the Samsung right now might be that a new device will come out only two months down the line, rendering the Samsung obsolete. I wouldn't normally mind that, but I'd be quite pissed off if that was the result of me not being able to wait a month or two.
Currently I have an HTC Desire and also an iPhone 4 32GB in my possession, so I could theoretically raise about £700 for a new phone. That might put me in a good position with the dual core phones coming out and all.
Does anyone know what the next generation of phones will be like? Might it be better to skip them out entirely?
Right now I can compare the Desire and iPhone, and I must say the iPhone is better in more ways than it's worse. Despite this, I was still considering selling it due to the issues with poor signal.
The iPhone build quality is definitely better, the games are actually worthwhile, and some of the apps, especially from larger companies like Facebook, seem more polished. In addition, I like the music player better (Genius is a great feature whatever anyone else may think), and the audio quality through headphones is superior. However, in almost every other way related to firmware, I think Android beats iOS. This includes gmail integration, stock apps such as contacts (especially on Sense UI) and the numerous options to customise it and play around with it; I can't install a custom kernel or test out a MIUI ROM on my iPhone.
This leaves me in a difficult position. Probably the most important considerations for me are apps, games, and the ability to use basic phone functions. The iPhone does two of these well, but is lacking in the phone department. On the other hand is Android, which is getting better as we discuss this on this very forum.
Sorry for the long rant, but does anyone else think that the quality of apps, and integration with all the different phones (fragmentation!) that are running Android vastly need to improve before Android can really rival the iPhone? I recently ran The Sims 3 side by side on both platforms. Need I say more? For me it's about quality rather than quantity. I'm not going to install all of the 80,000 apps on Android, or the 260,000 or whatever it is on the iPhone. What I will say is that most apps are comparable, but this isn't true when it comes to games.
Is anyone in a position to make a judgement as to whether the quality of the user experience and games is likely to improve in the near future?
Thanks!
unnddd said:
Is anyone in a position to make a judgement as to whether the quality of the user experience and games is likely to improve in the near future?
Thanks!
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IMO they (all the producers) have to do something about battery life.
The screens are getting bigger and bigger, GPUs more powerful.
The modern smartphones are less and less "wireless" - they need to be charged too often.
The next generation will be even worse than current in this area.
I only play a handful of games, but I can't tell the difference. Angry Birds and Paper Toss are identical on both platforms. Part of the problem is half-hearted efforts by developers for the Android platform. They've recently recognised it's growth, but iPhone is still more well known and more prevalent in widespread use particularly in the younger demographic who like wasting money on useless crap (i.e. silly apps), so there's usually more effort and polish put into most apps. I think developers seeking to make money also prefer the strict rigidity of the app store with iPhone
It's improving all the time as Android grows, Words With Friends is due out sometime soon
Is it possible to port the original S4 Camera apk to S4 Active system (whether rooted or not). So that we at the Active will also have that DUAL SHOT, SLOWMOTION, FAST MOTION feature... i know Samsung totally take it from the ACTIVE, but is it really possible... its just that, although its not a 13mp and SAMOLED phone... but the water protection, cool HARD BUTTONs, well i really like it... but then again, you cant get both worlds. so if we can port it, at least we can have some GOOD also features to S4 active.
That's what XDA is for!
I'm not an experienced Android developer, but I do know that the Dual Shot, Slow/Fast Motion features are certainly possible to implement. It's purely software related.
This is just another way for Samsung to make the S4 Active seem like it is less capable, or else everyone would've got an S4 Active.
But that's what XDA is for, bringing out the best in our Android phones, by maximalizing the software!
+1 for Dual Shot and Slow/Fast Motion!
s4 active camera apk please upload
Hello, please could someone upload the camera apk for the i9295 as i deleted mine by mistake... Any help would be greatly appreaciated...
The new Oppo Find 7/a debuted with a curious camera feature dubbed the "Super Zoom" more info here
What it does basically is making 50mpx image with a 13mpx camera sensor via magic software.
This tech is by Almalence and has existed for awhile now, more information about it here
This tech is also possible on a Galaxy nexus
So, Ultrapixel + Super Zoom = ?
Will someone with more technical knowhow look further into porting this to the M7?
skyalvinlee said:
The new Oppo Find 7/a debuted with a curious camera feature dubbed the "Super Zoom" more info here
What it does basically is making 50mpx image with a 13mpx camera sensor via magic software.
This tech is by Almalence and has existed for awhile now, more information about it here
This tech is also possible on a Galaxy nexus
So, Ultrapixel + Super Zoom = ?
Will someone with more technical knowhow look further into porting this to the M7?
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I have found this thread about it, I think that the ultrapixel could really get along with this superzoom feature, but as said in the thread, the port is impossible, maybe if Cyanogenmod makes it open source to all devices (the one plus one got it too), developpers can start porting it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2729594
Hello, guys. I've just started a petition to Samsung about bringing us the joy of RAW camera shooting. I'm not sure how much of you actually care about this Lollipop feature, but if you have the time, please, support the initiative and sign the petition. Here it is:
Enable RAW support on latest Samsung devices
P.S: For those who truly are enthusiasts I guess it would be best if you help me spread it amongs the users who might care. I intentionally haven't mentioned any particular device model since I hope to reach users of other Galaxy devices as well.
Thanks for your support!
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Hello, guys. I've just started a petition to Samsung about bringing us the joy of RAW camera shooting. I'm not sure how much of you actually care about this Lollipop feature, but if you have the time, please, support the initiative and sign the petition. Here it is:
Enable RAW support on latest Samsung devices
P.S: For those who truly are enthusiasts I guess it would be best if you help me spread it amongs the users who might care. I intentionally haven't mentioned any particular device model since I hope to reach users of other Galaxy devices as well.
Thanks for your support!
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sent :highfive:
It would be great in if they just implemented the entire camera API 2!
Petition signed!
Sent
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I'm with you. RAW was pretty much the only Lollipop feature I was interested in. Without it being implemented I've been quite happy to stay on KitKat.
Even the HTC One M9 has RAW support now, smh Samsung
I read somewhere here that they plan on adding it(as part of camera2) but the qualcomm models currently suffer from slow response times when camera2 is enabled in the firmware(even when not in use)
I agree with you, RAW is such an important thing HTC M9 already added the RAW option in an update to the M9 camera because I believe HTC DOES really care about the M9 owners.
While Samsung is delaying Note 4 updates because of the " Gear VR headset " !!!!!!!!!!!
who cares about it ???!!!!
I believe that Samsung should bring RAW support & free the Note 4 kernel from Gear VR headset firmware & convert it to a normal APK file to any one need it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I agree with you, RAW is such an important thing HTC M9 already added the RAW option in an update to the M9 camera because I believe HTC DOES really care about the M9 owners.
While Samsung is delaying Note 4 updates because of the " Gear VR headset " !!!!!!!!!!!
who cares about it ???!!!!
I believe that Samsung should bring RAW support & free the Note 4 kernel from Gear VR headset firmware & convert it to a normal APK file to any one need it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I don't think you understand how firmware or drivers work.
tahahawa said:
I don't think you understand how firmware or drivers work.
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BUT I think you are totally wrong, just google what I said to get better understand