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[Q] i9000 or i9001?

I want to buy a Galaxy S but... which is better? Galaxy S Plus has a few custom roms.. But its 1400 mhz.. hummingbird or scorpion? I'm a noob on these smartphones. some people say Galaxy S's processor is better than SGS+'s.. Which could I buy? Thanks.

I will recommend paying a few more and go for galaxy r .

Samsung Hummingbird is the best single-core chipset. ARM Cortex-A8 with PowerVR SGX540 = awesome combination.

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Bes05 said:
The sgs+ is better compared to hardware, (there is the + for) but in my opinion the sgs is a better choice cause there are more people with this phone.. more people = more devs = more custom roms
And if you can pay more.. sgs2 is a much better choice
Sent from my Galaxy S i9000 - ICS
sorry for bad english
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I agree with you. i9001 have a better hardware but have less devs working on them!

i9000 by far. Much more software, and in my opinion better machine.
BR

I'm running 1400 mhz on stock voltage of 1000 mhz. And -125 mv undervolted all of other frequencies.
Also I have a hummingbird + powervr 540 gpu
So I have Galaxy S+++

I9000 to the win
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA App

i9000+ will provide better web experience from the start thanks to higher cpu frequency, but you can oc i9000 to get pretty much the same effect. You need to decide whether you want customize your phone or use as it is straight grom the box. In terms of graphics i9000 crushes the i9000+, because it's powered by powervr540 while i9000+ uses adreno205 which is older and slower. Also there's the community backup thing. i9000 is one of the most popular and supprted android phones and this will continue even though much more powerful devices are released. It's just so user friendly in so many ways you can't ignore it. My vote would be for i9000, but it all comes down to what do you want from your phone and what are you going to use it for. Either way you go, you'll ebd up with a great sammy phone.
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i9001 is a nice choice, but i9000 better because of community and official samsung support.
I'll recommend u to look at the LG Optimus Black - it has almost the same price/specs but it's a newer model, so u'll get a support for a longer time...

I was in same situation as you, I choosed i9000 and I don't regret it - you can OC the CPU and the PowerVR SGX540 is much better than Adreno 205 + more ROMs and mods, bigger community, more people with this phone. I get around 3500 score in Quadrant benchmark.

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Look guys i know all people owning the i9000 are very proud of the powervr sgx540 gpu it uses, but actually adreno 205 is better than sgx 540, samsung has recently updated the adreno 205 gpu drivers in the galaxy w which uses the same chipset as the i9001, those who have the i9001 can download these egl drivers from here "http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1376462"
i have personally tested both the phones. the i9001 is in fact a good choice, the 1.4 ghz snapdragon cpu is the best single core processor i have seen, I don't want to hurt anyone here but all phones get old after sometime, the i9000 cant stay on the top always,and now we have the dual cores ready to woop our ares anytime

galaxy s i9000
for sure
DO THANK if you feel i helped you

Definitely the I9000! The latest stock rom (JW1) is incredibly smooth!

nail16 said:
Look guys i know all people owning the i9000 are very proud of the powervr sgx540 gpu it uses, but actually adreno 205 is better than sgx 540, samsung has recently updated the adreno 205 gpu drivers in the galaxy w which uses the same chipset as the i9001, those who have the i9001 can download these egl drivers from here "http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1376462"
i have personally tested both the phones. the i9001 is in fact a good choice, the 1.4 ghz snapdragon cpu is the best single core processor i have seen, I don't want to hurt anyone here but all phones get old after sometime, the i9000 cant stay on the top always,and now we have the dual cores ready to woop our ares anytime
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The Adreno 205 is not better, it's a piece of crap actually. 265m fillrate? that is the same as PowerVR MBX lite. PowerVR GPUs have much higher fillrate 1G fillrate which ensures gameloft games can be rendered with A.I. with lots of activities on screen. Adreno 205 renders OpenGL benchmark at very low choppy frame rates with disappearing polygons while PowerVR GSX 540 runs it smoothly without graphics glitches.
The 1.4GHz snapdragon processor is indeed better for multi-tasking, but what is the use of a faster processor with a combination of a ****ty GPU?

Not everybody is dependant on a gamer GPU. I personally don't play any games at all on my phone. So this depends on what you want your phone to deliver.

Go for Galaxy R
Go for Galaxy R, as samsung will be providing ICS for Galaxy R and Galaxy S2....

puneetgandhi said:
Go for Galaxy R, as samsung will be providing ICS for Galaxy R and Galaxy S2....
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Isn't that only available for Roger's network in the USA and not worldwide?

you can't get the answer here... because most of the guys here have Galaxy S i9000, so they have to defend they're own device lol!!! and for all you guys here who doesn't know anything about "GPU's" i can give you a quiick info. here is a simple benchmark by two of the most respectable benchmarking groups anandtech and mobiletechworld.
http://www.mobiletechworld.com/2010...-vs-sgx540-htc-desire-hd-vs-samsung-galaxy-s/
PowerVR SGX540 is a beast but Adreno 205 held its floor against it and wins by inches at the majority of categories. (slap on the face of the sgx540) users hahahahaha :silly:

[Q] Galaxy S vs Neo V for gaming? Help !!!

I am going to buy a new smartphone in couple of days.
For the first time i thought of buying Neo V because of its design and bravia engine display with large screen for gaming[ Ray would be little bit small to hold in both hands for gaming so dropped it ].
But,
Now i am confused to choose which phone to buy after seeing Galaxy S even though its on old model it has the same stand in the market.
I actually want to buy smartphone for HD gaming from gameloft and nonGL.
Which mobile supports all HD games
So please tell me which one should i buy....?

I have the SGS (Samsung Galaxy S) and it's a very good phone!
Anyway, for HD gaming is not too good... I don't have the Neo V, but checking the specs I can tell that it ain't very good neither.
I would recommend you to get a Xperia Play ( If you want your smatphone for gaming), is Cheaper than the SGS and has a better GPU.
The good thing about the SGS is that it has a lot of attention from the community (that means a lot of custom ROMs).
If you can get the money get a SGS2 or a Galaxy Nexus.
Cheers

For gaming, Galaxy S has PowerVR SGX 540 graphics is probably one of the best low priced android phones for gaming since iPhone has PowerVR SGX 535 graphics . Because games are natively coded and optimized for PowerVR GPUs, there is none of that "porting" thingie needed to be done.
That means the games are stable, fast and efficient when running on PowerVR graphics. There isn't "lost in quality" as much as regular ports, that unless you're playing it on a HD TV via TV out. Otherwise, WVGA is the limitation to that.
Neo V has Adreno 205, a non-powervr chip and is relativity slower than PowerVR SGX 540. So I wouldn't recommend that for gaming.

what about galaxy r i9103
Nvidia Tegra 2 AP20H
Dual-core 1 GHz Cortex-A9
ULP GeForce
1 GB RAM

I dont know, but if you play so much your battery will be down in 2-3h

Xperia play probably would be good, but the custom rom side of things is a bit of a barren wasteground compared to over here on the SGS forum. There are only 1-2 custom roms that are any good.
Had very mixed results with converting my own PSX games with psxperia, but the dedicated hardware controller is soooo much better than a on-screen one

vamsikrishnach said:
what about galaxy r i9103
Nvidia Tegra 2 AP20H
Dual-core 1 GHz Cortex-A9
ULP GeForce
1 GB RAM
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As far as I know, Tegra 2 shares many of the similarities to PowerVR architecture. Some graphically intensive games are also optimized for this particular chip and are listed THD.
Lets sum up the pluses:
1) Similar architecture
2)THD optimized games enabling extra detail for ULV Geforce GPUs
So why not?

[Q] Difference between armv6-800MHz and armv7-1024MHz

I am bit confused ,
There is only a difference of 200 MHz and a armv7 processor can handle much more than a armv6 processor.
Many games today releases for armv7 or for the phones with 1024MHz processors,
My x8 reaches a top of 806MHz,
As an example,
i played GTA 3 without sound,
with increment of 200MHz others can play even gta Vice city with HD.
I gonna be mad, whats wrong here,
Please someone elaborate!!!

Difference between these 2 types of processors is not just about CPUClock, arm7 processors also have a hidden memory called "cache memory" ,this memory is expensive & absolutely super-fast so CPU don't have to wait for data to transfer from RAM (slow compared to cache mem)
This cache memory in armv7 devices is about 1 megabytes, but in armv6 its just afew kilobytes
It's not just cache, CPU design in armv7 is different ,some games use special libs which is included in armv7 roms, etc,etc........
More info:
http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/21137/difference-between-armv6-armv7-processors
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http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...ifference+between+armv6+&+armv7&hl=en&ct=clnk
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The differences between armv6-800 and armv7-1000 is NOT only the 200MHz.
The real difference is the processor design. The armv6 is older design (on x8 this is an arm1136 core), the armv7 is newer with more "knowledge". More complex instruction sets (the armv7 have special instructions what we not have) higher IPC (instructions per clocks), etc... Example: our x8 have an arm1136 core (possible to overclock to 800MHz), the xperia mini have scorpion core (similar to the popular cortex a9 design, but a little bit faster) what is 1GHz on default. But the scorpion core have newer float point unit (vfpv3 againt our vfp), have the armv7a addons in the instruction set, have the NEON extension (what is an audio/video proccessing accelerator), have the thumb-2 extensions (what is double fast than the old thumb-1) and finally: have newer GPU (adreno 205 against our adreno 200, what is theoretically have double computing speed).
So, if you compare the two phones, you can see: on paper the differences is small (400MHz (only 200 with oc) in cpu speed, near same gpu, same resolution), but with heavyweight apps (usually the hd games) the mini can be 2-3 times faster than our phone.

[Q] Chainfire3D and Tegra 3

I heard, read and saw some things about the nvidia drivers for tegra 3 being sluggish.
Is it possible that our poor results "tegra3" facing exynos soc could be consequence of the nvidia drivers, since many games are optimized for qualcomm and only few for tegra3. So is it possible to mess with the gpu drivers and get a little extra juice out of it?

Compwxr said:
I heard, read and saw some things about the nvidia drivers for tegra 3 being sluggish.
Is it possible that our poor results "tegra3" facing exynos soc could be consequence of the nvidia drivers, since many games are optimized for qualcomm and only few for tegra3. So is it possible to mess with the gpu drivers and get a little extra juice out of it?
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If you compare (and i have it done...) the process power of the Tegra 3 vs Exynos, on, for example, ANTUTU, you will see that in PROCESS power we have more much potential, on the GPU side, our LG 4X HD has a freq cap on the GPU that make it runs max to 416Mhz, and that is to low, the HTC One X+ runs at 520Mhz and at that freq, Tegra 3 can reach the GPU power of the MALI 400 GPU, but in processing power, we have more...

[Q] Adreno 320 Drivers and Optimizations

I understand tech, so the process I'm looking for is simple enough.
I've been scouring the internet for the latest Adreno 320 drivers to update my S4 Active. Working on the Dolphin Emu. I can tell the Gpu gets overloaded and gives me a forced reboot. So I ask anyone out here for a link to the drivers I can replace mine with. I noticed not all Adreno 320 gpus are the same for the phones they are in. There are different models from what it seems. Which is why I'm asking here.
In addition, if anyone has any recommendations for overclocking the gpu as well as optimizations, I'm all ears.