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Should I swap my Desire HD with a Galaxy S?

Hello fellow XDA'ers,
I've had my Desire HD for about 10 months & although it's perfectly fine and indeed excellent, apart from the below average battery, I just got bored.
So, a friend of mine has a SGS & I am thinking of swapping with him...
1)Will I notice the RAM difference?
2)Does the pentail screen bother much?
3)How's the sense rom on the SGS?
So what are your thoughts? Did any one convert from a DHD to SGS?
Thank you.

Dont do it! I came from galaxy s to dhd......dhd feels snappier nd much better screen. Plus the sense interface on the dhd is much better than the stupid touchwiz bull**** of the sgs.....wait until u see the browser resolution as well! Horrible....wait.....did i mention samsung's kies software? Well it suckssssss......thats when it really identifies ur phone....although i lost arnd 300$ sellng the sgs nd gettng the dhd.....im not sorry i got rid of that thng

For me SGS is much better than DHD... My gs still perfect even if it is dropped while in mine DHD there are no levers of the volume because were detached.
Perhaps you'll notice that the ram is less but this minority will be satisfied by the fantastic display Super Amoled! The GS also while having 3 megapixel less than camera of dhd take best pictures and video runs much more fluid and detailed ... Just watch it on youtube... Then gs is much more customizable in terms of hacks.
So... Make your choice...

Yeah.
Sgs is a great phone. Borrow your mates for a few days and see.
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I think if you want a phone in such a range you can wait a 2-3 months as samsung is going to launch galaxy w on September 1 Berlin event it will have a 1.4 ghz single core processsor and 3.7 inch screen! If u can't wait for it thrnvuo for galaxy s as it is the best in its price range!
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BHuvan goyal said:
I think if you want a phone in such a range you can wait a 2-3 months as samsung is going to launch galaxy w on September 1 Berlin event it will have a 1.4 ghz single core processsor and 3.7 inch screen! If u can't wait for it thrnvuo for galaxy s as it is the best in its price range!
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its still single-core, not much upgrade except the size and the overclocked cpu.

romdroid. said:
its still single-core, not much upgrade except the size and the overclocked cpu.
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Well it depends on the rest of the specs too.
on topic, I love my sgs. The kernels, roms, upgrades, mods, it's a lot of fun to learn about and make as good as possible. I wouldn't trade it for much else. Try out your friends phone and imagine how good it could be.
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Thanks for the reply guys!
The DHD is perfect, but I just got bored and want to try something new.
And I can't buy a new phone, so I am thinking of swapping it....
Guess I'll swap, & maybe we'll re-swap in 4 months again

[REQ]How to make GT5830 run super fast

Hi guys,im new to xda dev.So guide me throughout my life here..Okay erm,so my question is how do i make my galaxy ace run faster in ways like the speed of booting,loading games and stuffs like that.Please answer my question.
Thanks in advance seniors:good:

buy a S2.
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new here?
read this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1493377
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1768181
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1655823

Not a ton. The ace isn't the fastest phone (800mhz processor stock). If you want a faster phone, I suggest a new one.
Anyway, first is overclocking the processor. The highest stable I think I've seen is 921mhz. This however ends up killing your battery (works the other way around too). For this you need an overclockable kernal (I don't know how to do it or where to get it lol). Another thing you can do is remove useless apps (so thinks like email, Gmail, maps and things that aren't usually used). This will free up some RAM and make sure that you don't have many apps running in the background at the same time. Speaking of RAM, get an app to manage that as well. Don't know how effective it truly is, but its something to do. Get rid of a few things like live wallpapers and FM radio as well as that's a lot of ram and CPU usage right there. Just look for key words in the title such as "light" (for useless apps being removed) and "OC kernal" (for the overclock) and hopefully you'll get what you are looking for.
Oye... I dunno.... I'm no pro at this (I'm not even a dev), but I'm just throwing out suggestions.
Anyway, use search, Google it, and experiment. Hopefully you can get some good performance from this cool little mid range device, but remember, its that, a midrange device. Not gonna beat the S3 anytime soon
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sell it and buy a nexus!

Buy a s3:|
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I own the Galaxy Ace, and there is no way you can make it faster.
I tried so much: Switching Custom ROMs, Uninstalling apps, Overclocking etc.
But they all don't work.
The Ace is cheap, you can't get something as fast as a Galaxy SIII or HTC One X for that price.

The thing is, it is faster or we think it is faster?
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Overclocking is very useful and as others have said, works in a ratio with battery. Once you have rooted your phone, find a custom ROM you like ( I recommend Apocalypse by Itsoulas - it is very, very fast and best for games) because they are brilliant at helping you do what you normally cannot on the stock rom.
Good luck and welcome to Xda! :beer:
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What Ace said is true, but my phone's battery life is already poor without overclocking.

First thing
Since when does the ace has legs ?
It cant run
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Its so easy
1. He wants the best performance right??yes.
So i would prefer the official stable cyanogenmod rom with some tweaks. And maybe not so usefull at all but also overclocking, like many of you said it before.
2. Come on guys we have an almost 2 years old ARMV6 device which was from the first release date since today a midrange or maybe lowend device. So please. Its natural that we cant compare it with quad core or dual core phones, in some cases even not with singlecore armv7 devices.
All in all its a sexy phone with iphone look and acceptable performance at all. AND its still cheap
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Upgrade from galaxy s to S4

Hi guys,
i would say that i am very happy with samsung s i9000 as i could do most tasks with ease and now my upgrade is due and i am confuse whether i should go for upgrade or not by paying extra 250 to 400 pounds. I have used s2 as well but to be honest i did like s 1 more and did not find any difference between single and dual core
Do these dual/quad cores or 1/2 gb RAM in s3/s4 make any significant difference ? or its just marketting tactics ? do s3/s4 has any advantage over s1 if you dont play any 3d games on mobile ?
thanks
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Hi, on s3 s4 its 1 /2gb ram this makes the phone lag less and run smoother onjellybean as it is meant for jellybean whereas in our s1 it lags on jellbean as it meant for gingerbread........and quad core means more process can run and the cpu can take more load.....
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sandman303 said:
Hi, on s3 s4 its 1 /2gb ram this makes the phone lag less and run smoother onjellybean as it is meant for jellybean whereas in our s1 it lags on jellbean as it meant for gingerbread........and quad core means more process can run and the cpu can take more load.....
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yea but there are many jelly bean custom ROMS for S which dont lags at all and run smoothly and i mean we used to have 512 MB/1GB RAM in old desktop which was doing much more multitasking than our phone and was running ok
I understand that quad core or 2GB RAM could make difference for HD/3d games but do we really need quad core processor or 2GB RAM for internet surfing , email or watching videos on youtube etc
they just upgarde processor and ram and charge 4 time more than what galaxy s cost.

I'd upgrade to any phone with atleast 1gb ram and dual core(or more) setup any day! our phones are at the limits now.sgs lags like anything.android ain't slimming down.its resource hungry/less optimisation. we get tonnes of features in return thou.
if u can afford go for s4/HTC/sony or other phone as long as there's xda/community support.big deal breaker for me;developer support.

U do for multitasking!! for u i recomend s2!!
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sandman303 said:
U do for multitasking!! for u i recomend s2!!
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U want him to trade a lovely wolfson dac on s1 versus some **** that Is on s2?
Upgrade to s4 or don't upgrade at all. Or wait to see what sound s4 comes with.
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Yes, for me also is sound and qualitiy of soundrecording important wether I choose a new phone or not.
I know what I have with my SGS9000.
I don't know how all the other new phone do the sound.
No one ever wrote about the sound recording qualities of up-to-date phone, yet.

Galaxy S or S Plus - Which to buy?

Hi guys,
So i watched a couple of videos about this device being able to run some graphic intensive games using a ROM called HellyBean or smth like that. So because im abit into gaming but not that much, which device is preferred to buy if Im into gaming. Usually, i use my phone for social networking apps and some gaming like Asphalt, Dead Space etc... Also, i rmb that the S Plus had the same hardware as my old Galaxy Wonder but its still laggy in games. SO is this phone suitable for meh? I have about 120USD/88EUR/150SGD to spend so recommend me other device D
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S plus you can get. Not much difference between them. S plus MSM8255T 1400MHz Qualcomm processor. Galaxy S ARM Cortex A8 processor 1000MHz. S plus = HSDPA (14.4 Mbps). Galaxy S = HSDPA (7.2 Mbps).
Sorry bad English.

S might have a better developer support. I have it running well for 4 years now. And now on Kit Kat. Cheers

s has good dev support but s plus has a bit more RAM

I would go for the plus. Running KitKat on it now. Very good.

Hmm, I watched a YouTube video about this guy who was using his Galaxy S to play really intensed games like MC4 & Asphalt 8 at full graphics. I rmb he enabled Zram and used HellyBean. Does the Galaxy S Plus also handles the same perfomance? Or isit better even without zram and that ROM?
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I have the "S plus" and would by it again
I have got the i9001 "plus" for several years now and i realy love it. There is a great developer community and KitKat is quite stable on it.
The only problem is the small amount of RAM but as far as i know its the same on i9000.

yea 100mb free ram on i9000

100% s plus
It has better look and material

ali_haghparast said:
100% s plus
It has better look and material
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Really? I thought both are similar except specs differ.
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Surely I think Galaxy S i9000 is better!!almost always the first models are better than they come after that.

TiTAN-O-One said:
SO is this phone suitable for meh? I have about 120USD/88EUR/150SGD to spend so recommend me other device D
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Many differences betwin i9000 and i9001. On stock rom they are not actual now. On custom rom i9000 is better, i think. i9000 supported tv-out on modern custom roms, i9001 does not supporting tv-out on custom roms. i9000 have one of the finest audiochip Wolfson, it give you very good sound quality, i9001 have not Wolfson chip. With hellybean rom on i9000 you get up to 439Mb RAM, i9001 about 400Mb max. 3D performance of PowerVRSGX540(i9000) is more then Adreno205 (i9001). i9000 support usb otg host (with ext power), i9001 have not supporting usb otg.
But i recommended you look to Samsung Galaxy SII, cause it have 1Gb RAM. 512Mb ram not actual in the last modern games.

TiTAN-O-One said:
Really? I thought both are similar except specs differ.
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sorry dude I think you said I9070

Pls dont buy these devices at that time there a better cheap alternatives.
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S3 LTE (This) or S4 Mini?

Im abit of a heavy gamer, run social-holic apps and do some web browsing. Are either of this phone good for my requirements? The I9305 cost as much as the S4 Mini in my country so deciding between these is tough thanks
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comparing devices/roms/softwares isn't allowed in XDA i think you will have no answer till mod come here and close thread.

Lil Geeky said:
comparing devices/roms/softwares isn't allowed in XDA i think you will have no answer till mod come here and close thread.
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You can compare devices AFAIK. Im not sure about ROMs though but i think theres tons of ROM comparison videos at YouTube
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Lil Geeky said:
comparing devices/roms/softwares isn't allowed in XDA i think you will have no answer till mod come here and close thread.
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Mini!!!:good:

TiTAN-O-One said:
Im abit of a heavy gamer, run social-holic apps and do some web browsing. Are either of this phone good for my requirements? The I9305 cost as much as the S4 Mini in my country so deciding between these is tough thanks
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I would say the I9305, mainly because of the screen and the RAM, i think the S4 mini is too small but that depends on what you like, for specs you can look here:
http://versus.com/nl/samsung-galaxy-i9305-s3-lte-vs-samsung-galaxy-s4-mini

SamC95 said:
I would say the I9305, mainly because of the screen and the RAM, i think the S4 mini is too small but that depends on what you like, for specs you can look here:
http://versus.com/nl/samsung-galaxy-i9305-s3-lte-vs-samsung-galaxy-s4-mini
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Specs is what I'm concerned about. Other people say even though the S4 Mini is a Dual-core device, it still outperform the S3 LTE in benchmarks in Antutu.
Also, the screen res is a plus too. qHD vs HD resolution.
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TiTAN-O-One said:
Specs is what I'm concerned about. Other people say even though the S4 Mini is a Dual-core device, it still outperform the S3 LTE in benchmarks in Antutu.
Also, the screen res is a plus too. qHD vs HD resolution.
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Hm that´s weird. Well if you look at the link you see there are very few (good) points for the S4 mini, so when talking specs you should probably choose the S34G. My sister has the S4 mini and it´s a lot slower, and the screen is (in my opinion) not better when using it.

Mini is sheet. Why? Mini is mini. S3 will be always S3. Buy S III but i9300 for better ROMs and developers

SamC95 said:
Hm that´s weird. Well if you look at the link you see there are very few (good) points for the S4 mini, so when talking specs you should probably choose the S34G. My sister has the S4 mini and it´s a lot slower, and the screen is (in my opinion) not better when using it.
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Did she install CM11? One of my xda friend had CM11 on his device and gave him a +2000 on his Antutu Benchmark. Usually he got was just 18000 pts. Now 20000.
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Minto107 said:
Mini is sheet. Why? Mini is mini. S3 will be always S3. Buy S III but i9300 for better ROMs and developers
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I seriously agree with you hands down. I may have to look at some kernels you guys have. I like UV and then OC devices i use. Its just so that i save more battery while still having good (if not better) perfomance
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TiTAN-O-One said:
I seriously agree with you hands down. I may have to look at some kernels you guys have. I like UV and then OC devices i use. Its just so that i save more battery while still having good (if not better) perfomance
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S III International has for example S5 ROMs(Lite and full), S4/N3 ROMs, official support from Cyanogen Mod(I had HTC One S C2 before and I know how it is when you have less popular variant of phone). Might S III LTE has LTE and 2x more RAM but I've chosen International edition and I'm happy with that

TiTAN-O-One said:
Did she install CM11? One of my xda friend had CM11 on his device and gave him a +2000 on his Antutu Benchmark. Usually he got was just 18000 pts. Now 20000.
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Oh no way, my sister doesn´t care about things like that, she´s completely stock

Minto107 said:
S III International has for example S5 ROMs(Lite and full), S4/N3 ROMs, official support from Cyanogen Mod(I had HTC One S C2 before and I know how it is when you have less popular variant of phone). Might S III LTE has LTE and 2x more RAM but I've chosen International edition and I'm happy with that
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I own a HTC One S C2 too! Well, it got hard bricked for some reason (didn't detect my device as QDL).
Anyways, if everything's fine, i might go for the SIII LTE
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I liked Sense 6 Prism on it

S3 LTE all the way. Just the bigger screen is enough reason to pick it.

LTE all the way here too, especially as there are so many excellent roms and tweaks already.