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Hi guys
I was planning to buy the Samsung Galaxy S Advance as my second phone, it has an dual core 1 Ghz ST-Ericsson U8500 CPU with a Mali 400 GPU from ARM with 768 MB of RAM. and other similar features like the S plus.
According to the stericsson website the U8500 chip supports 1080p video recording but on the gsmarena specs it shows 720p with 30fps (maybe someday could unlock the full hd feature )
The main reason i posted this thread was to ask about it's GPU performance, as it includes the same GPU from the S2.
Will the performance be the same as the S2 ? or somewhere around that ?
And what about the U8500's performance ?

Another Question
Are Dual cores really fast compared to a single core
I own a S plus which has a Qualcomm msm8255t 1.4 Ghz single core cpu, which i find quite fast, it runs CM9 very smoothly.

I'm also considering this phone, and I hope you don't mind I through in another question: is it true what they say that with this being "an upgrade to the Galaxy S" and only available on limited markets we don't have to expect much development and selection in custom ROMs?
I am considering either this, or a Motorola Atrix 4G and I really don't know what to choose...

I actually like it's design, it's somewhat like a mix between the S2 and Galaxy Nexus, more like a baby Nexus.
anyways this phone has great potential as it beats the galaxy R (see benchmarks at gsmarena)

I don't think that it'll get much attention by devs. It's not that the phone's slow, but there won't be as many users as other Galaxy S phones have. You can see what happened to S Plus: it's faster than the Galaxy S, but not even supported by Cyanogenmod, with a very small community. The simple reason why the Galaxy S has more users now than the advanced one will ever have, is that the S once was the best phone out and many people bought it. The Plus and Advanced aren't. They get 1/2 cores when already 2/4 are standard.

LOL i just bought the device it's real smooth was playing some hd games and the performance is really good, the mali 400mp is doing its job just fine and multitasking is pretty good
I don't know about Germany but this device seems to be getting quite popular here in India

nail16 said:
LOL i just bought the device it's real smooth was playing some hd games and the performance is really good, the mali 400mp is doing its job just fine and multitasking is pretty good
I don't know about Germany but this device seems to be getting quite popular here in India
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A friend got it... but he's Android noob .

I just looked on amazon - for 40€ more you get the S2. IMO it would be the better choice. More RAM, faster, awesome cam. Why didn't you buy it?

I will rather buy S2. I learn my lesson with i9001.

In Croatia "S Advance" is on T-Mobile more than 200£ cheaper SII, therefor I don't see a reason not to buy it, except that it probably will not get much attention from developers.

dark_knight35 said:
I just looked on amazon - for 40€ more you get the S2. IMO it would be the better choice. More RAM, faster, awesome cam. Why didn't you buy it?
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there's quite a big difference in the price between the advance and the S2, so i chose the Advance over the S2. (and also i liked its nexus like curve, the curved display looks really cool)
Anyways the phone is performing well, for the first time i could play GTA 3 (v1.3) with full graphics without any lags.
and now have started enjoying gaming.
I don't regret buying this phone, maybe when samsung releases ics for the phone it will perform similar to the S2

nail16 said:
there's quite a big difference in the price between the advance and the S2, so i chose the Advance over the S2. (and also i liked its nexus like curve, the curved display looks really cool)
Anyways the phone is performing well, for the first time i could play GTA 3 (v1.3) with full graphics without any lags.
and now have started enjoying gaming.
I don't regret buying this phone, maybe when samsung releases ics for the phone it will perform similar to the S2
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Nah, if you get past 300€, 40€ aren't a big difference. With the S2, you can replace your cam with the phone, with Advanced you can't take usefull pics. And just look at the awesome dev support. I think Sammy only released the Advanced because of the big critic, that none of the Galaxy S devices gets ICS. Now they can say 'upgrade to advanced' and make money with their bad support. But in the end it's your decision .

I know S2 is a better device but i still liked the look of the Advance, and was quite curious about the new NovaThor chipset
and btw there ain't no news of ICS for the galaxy Advance (I'm starting to worry now )
The phone seems to have some very nice motion controls (like when you double tap on the top of the phone it activates voice search, and the tilt to zoom function)

I'm confused between s advanced and Xperia arc S (both of them at same price ) but i'm scared to get s advance duo to lake of support/deve so what do u think about that nail16??

Xperia Arc S has the same configuration as the galaxy s plus so it's a single core device and has a adreno 205 (the gpu kinda sucks)
I say go for the Advance don't worry about the dev support, it seems to be a powerful phone it will soon be recognized by the devs

Ihope so =D

Theres No XDA support for the phone. So its a big no actually !!
In india also its not that famous :O..!!

Great phone,
you can buy it closed eyes

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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27198182#post27198182
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If this device gets a forum,
I will make Kernels and if time permits , ROMs also..
You can check my work in my signature..

Samsung Galaxy S5 Review

Hey Guys,
Here's my take on the Samsung Galaxy S5... spent close to 72 hours to get this done, hope someone finds it useful...
Thanks for your time and feedbacks welcome
Ash

Was waiting for a review from you man! :good:
Awesome review!
But I have to disagree with what you said about the Exynos not having any major changes. Most of the changes are under the hood as @AndreiLux said and it is still as powerful(if not, more powerful) than the Snapdragon 801 as seen from benchmarks. Only disappointing thing about the Exynos chipset is the lack of LTE.
And also, Samsung removed all the benchmark boosting code in the Kitkat update. So, the benchmark results will not be "fake".

Thanks buddy I'm gonna add it to the review thread!!!
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This is awesome. One of the best review I've seen.

system.img said:
Was waiting for a review from you man! :good:
Awesome review!
But I have to disagree with what you said about the Exynos not having any major changes. Most of the changes are under the hood as @AndreiLux said and it is still as powerful(if not, more powerful) than the Snapdragon 801 as seen from benchmarks. Only disappointing thing about the Exynos chipset is the lack of LTE.
And also, Samsung removed all the benchmark boosting code in the Kitkat update. So, the benchmark results will not be "fake".
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or maybe they have a better way to cover up #conspiracies
barondebxl said:
Thanks buddy I'm gonna add it to the review thread!!!
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Thanks m8 really appreciate it
hemander said:
This is awesome. One of the best review I've seen.
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Thanks buddy

ashwin123 said:
or maybe they have a better way to cover up #conspiracies
Thanks m8 really appreciate it
Thanks buddy
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Of course buddy, been subscribed to your channel for years! And I suggest everyone else to subscribed as well
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I'm not a registered youtube user but I'll give you a thanks here, because the amount of work and dedication some of you are putting into your yt videos is simply amazing.
Overall a great video some things I wanted to add (tried the phone yesterday):
1. TouchWiz blazing fast ? Sadly that wasn't my experience for sure it's far from slow but to me it seemed like the microlags increased quite a bit
2. Exynos ..well personally I'd take 8 over 4 cores sadly not available in Austria
3. Performance: as a non handygamer you just have proven my deepest fears, 2 gig of RAM simply aren't enough for flawless multitasking. The Z 2 should handle that much better although maybe even 3 gigs aren't enough.
4. fully agree on the bloat thing, that's why root as always is a must for me.
5. thanks for the great review

Is everyone happy with Snapdragon 805?

I thought it would be leaps and bound better than my note 3 with snap 800 but it's not IMO. I do see a slight improvement but some stuttering and occasional lag (delay) when opening apps are still there. But it's probably due to touchwiz. Although the other advantages like better cameras front and back, metal frame, higher res screen, added features makes it a keeper. I just wished the 805 processor handled touchwiz much better. I wonder how the tegra k1 is on a Samsung phone. It's definitely awesome on my Nvidia shield tablet. K end rant.
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TouchWiz is so bloated, the processor doesn't make a huge difference.
I've already debloated with Titanium and can see a slight improvement.
Makes me more eager for the AOSP goodness, then we'll see the true power of this beast.

+1
This beast has yet to be unleashed.
What apps did you freeze/delete in Titanium? Just curious....and to get me by until the magic surfaces. :good:
devynbf said:
TouchWiz is so bloated, the processor doesn't make a huge difference.
I've already debloated with Titanium and can see a slight improvement.
Makes me more eager for the AOSP goodness, then we'll see the true power of this beast.
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Just comparing it to my note 3. I know benchmark isn't everything but with gfx Manhattan screen on, I get around the same fps. 3D mark the note 3 result is quite significant. 18000 + vs 13000 +. Maybe it's my device?
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aznmode said:
Just comparing it to my note 3. I know benchmark isn't everything but with gfx Manhattan screen on, I get around the same fps. 3D mark the note 3 result is quite significant. 18000 + vs 13000 +. Maybe it's my device?
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definitely loving the device. the display is sexy as hell, cameras are amazing, the phone feels fast, love the new features...with exception of private mode not working with xposed....i am definitely happy with the note 4.

iunlock said:
+1
This beast has yet to be unleashed.
What apps did you freeze/delete in Titanium? Just curious....and to get me by until the magic surfaces. :good:
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I just froze all of the applications that were preloaded that I'm never going to use.

I see or feel no lag.

There's a private mode xposed module

Compusmurf said:
There's a private mode xposed module
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true, i tried that on my note 3 though and caused me to bootloop. haven't tried it since unfortunately.

Private Mode and Xposed
knarfies said:
definitely loving the device. the display is sexy as hell, cameras are amazing, the phone feels fast, love the new features...with exception of private mode not working with xposed....i am definitely happy with the note 4.
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If you want to use S Health and Private Mode with Xposed, just install the XSecureStorage Xposed module. It works like a charm.

Gpu comparison mali t760 vs andero 450

As we already know that in cpu exynod version wins the snapdragon loses
same here with gpu the exynos version has mali t760 wins and beats snapdragon andreno 450
here is the http://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-note-4-exynos-5433-vs-snapdragon-805-395820/

Adreno 450? Wow
Texted from Note 4

bala_gamer said:
Adreno 450? Wow
Texted from Note 4
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lol

This is from june.

Iyrah said:
As we already know that in cpu exynod version wins the snapdragon loses
same here with gpu the exynos version has mali t760 wins and beats snapdragon andreno 450
here is the http://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-note-4-exynos-5433-vs-snapdragon-805-395820/
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Not sure what the hell they did, but I'm getting 47068 on ATU with my 910F/snapdragon 805

I got 49900 on exynos

Iyrah said:
I got 49900 on exynos
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i got infinity on snapdragon
here is you place
Note: most people here know exynos has the upper hand in overall comparison with sd805

Iyrah said:
I got 49900 on exynos
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But you are damned to run Touchwiz. We snapdragon guys are on CM12 and it's getting pretty damn stable already Needless to say it blows Touchwiz totally out of the water in terms of performance, fluidness and overal responsiveness. Ah and I noted 20%-30% faster NAND throughput times, not sure if that's due to Lollipop (ah yeah, forgot you guys are still waiting for Samsung to release lollipop, haha)
BTW, I didnt optimize anything at all, just benchmarked out of the box Touchwiz, as shipped. With tweaking I'm sure it's possible to squeeze out a bit more. I was just merely saying that the benchmark the OP referred to is completely wrong.

Ey, mine is bigger !!
But mine is thicker !!

By the end of the day few more or less frames per second won't make much difference but if you want enjoy Gear VR than only Snapdragon version is supported so far.
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One thing to consider is that this article was released june 2014. This is way before it was released. In the article it state the snapdragon has a quad 2.5ghz processor but was reased with a 2.7ghz. If you want to know who's is bigger and who's is thicker you need to test them now and both plane stock roms out of the box.

Lodix said:
Ey, mine is bigger !!
But mine is thicker !!
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Latest trend is big and thin
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gekkehenkie11 said:
But you are damned to run Touchwiz. We snapdragon guys are on CM12 and it's getting pretty damn stable already Needless to say it blows Touchwiz totally out of the water in terms of performance, fluidness and overal responsiveness. Ah and I noted 20%-30% faster NAND throughput times, not sure if that's due to Lollipop (ah yeah, forgot you guys are still waiting for Samsung to release lollipop, haha)
BTW, I didnt optimize anything at all, just benchmarked out of the box Touchwiz, as shipped. With tweaking I'm sure it's possible to squeeze out a bit more. I was just merely saying that the benchmark the OP referred to is completely wrong.
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How is that working with the S Pen?

rsd2000 said:
How is that working with the S Pen?
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It works Yeah I've read that a lot here "but I will lose the s-pen when flashing custom ROM". No you will not !! Not sure why people think that, maybe they think that because it's a samsung feature it's impossible to support on a non-samsung system ? Since Samsung is using the linux kernel, they are bound by law to release all drivers. So they did, including the s-pen, so it's supported out of the box on any custom ROM !
All you need to do is download the 'markers' app from the store and after you've installed it, you have an s-pen sketch board, and after that it just works on everything else too (on the CM12 interface etc) , including air support (no need to touch the display).
The only detail that I don't like too much is the pointer itself. On stock it's a small dot, via markers it's like a mouse pointer. However I read yesterday that people are working to change the pointer, it's possible via an overlay. But then again, it's not bothering me much anyway.

gekkehenkie11 said:
It works Yeah I've read that a lot here "but I will lose the s-pen when flashing custom ROM". No you will not !! Not sure why people think that, maybe they think that because it's a samsung feature it's impossible to support on a non-samsung system ? Since Samsung is using the linux kernel, they are bound by law to release all drivers. So they did, including the s-pen, so it's supported out of the box on any custom ROM !
All you need to do is download the 'markers' app from the store and after you've installed it, you have an s-pen sketch board, and after that it just works on everything else too (on the CM12 interface etc) , including air support (no need to touch the display).
The only detail that I don't like too much is the pointer itself. On stock it's a small dot, via markers it's like a mouse pointer. However I read yesterday that people are working to change the pointer, it's possible via an overlay. But then again, it's not bothering me much anyway.
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"... You had my curiosity. But now you have my attention..."
Now that sounds awesome, thanks for informing us.

Screen Resolution

I noticed on my phone that it is set at the medium resolution settings instead of the highest one. I read in the preliminary reveiws that going to the highest will burn more battery and make things smaller. I am a 50 year old man that should use glasses but doesnt. Now that people have had the phone for a while what settings are people using for their resolutions and does it make the text smaller. I dont seem to notice but i cant check anymore as i returned it for a verizon model and will be waiting. It is a question i could never find a answer and this is the last place i could figure to look.

The highest resolution does not change the text size. If you look very, very carefully, you may notice a slight difference in sharpness compared to medium resolution, but it is, in my opinion, negligible. Take also into account that med res is also more battery friendly and you may reach the same conclusion as I, that med res is the way to go.

mgault said:
I noticed on my phone that it is set at the medium resolution settings instead of the highest one. I read in the preliminary reveiws that going to the highest will burn more battery and make things smaller. I am a 50 year old man that should use glasses but doesnt. Now that people have had the phone for a while what settings are people using for their resolutions and does it make the text smaller. I dont seem to notice but i cant check anymore as i returned it for a verizon model and will be waiting. It is a question i could never find a answer and this is the last place i could figure to look.
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I keep mine at FHD+ (2220x1080), simply for the battery trade off. WQHD+ (2690x1440) uses a lot more power and not a lot of content is native in that resolution, and it does make things smaller. The only instance I could imagine there being a significant advantage of the latter resolution would be when one was using the Gear VR. When a display is that close to your eyes and viewed through the lenses of the headset, you'd want a higher resolution to avoid being able to see individual pixels.

As a near 50 year old man myself I recommend setting it to the medium setting, keeps battery happy and the old 4 eyes.

The battery difference in the middle and Max is minut. Here is mine at Max all day brightness at 80.
So put it on the Max if you want don't worry about the battery. Like I said I tested both resolutions and its not that big of a difference at all. We buy these phones for there great display use it.

jason504 said:
The battery difference in the middle and Max is minut. Here is mine at Max all day brightness at 80.
So put it on the Max if you want don't worry about the battery. Like I said I tested both resolutions and its not that big of a difference at all. We buy these phones for there great display use it.
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Thank you for that - I may switch as well, the difference really seems negligible.

jason504 said:
The battery difference in the middle and Max is minut. Here is mine at Max all day brightness at 80.
So put it on the Max if you want don't worry about the battery. Like I said I tested both resolutions and its not that big of a difference at all. We buy these phones for there great display use it.
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Yes this!!! I just got 24 hours on full res with 25% battery left, so no big hit on battery. Makes it look crisper and sharper when I have my cheaters on .
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I had to jump to the lowest resolution due to extreme battery drainage!

AndroTechMaster said:
I had to jump to the lowest resolution due to extreme battery drainage!
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Something is wrong with your setup then...

pedmond said:
Something is wrong with your setup then...
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Any ideas what?

I tested out the highest setting when I first got it but found it to be negligible in difference. Based on that and the fact that I knew it would just burn down the battery, I switched back to medium.

ziggy3055 said:
I tested out the highest setting when I first got it but found it to be negligible in difference. Based on that and the fact that I knew it would just burn down the battery, I switched back to medium.
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I got over 6 1/2 hours of SOT yesterday with it on Max.

don't see the point in max setting for general use. Its only of use for VR. Should auto detect VR and whack it up too but it doesn't.

AndroTechMaster said:
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Good question. Battery life on my Note8 is very good. Today, with a SoT of 4h, 45 min of which was Waze, the phone was at 49%.
But - I don't use push notifications, no Whatsapp and I am vrey careful about which apps can send notifications at all.
BTW - screen on Auto, resolution at medium.
If you are doing all that, I would consider a factory reset...

bonerp said:
don't see the point in max setting for general use. Its only of use for VR. Should auto detect VR and whack it up too but it doesn't.
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So you don't see the point for having better resolution on your screen? If that's the case just get a 720p phone.

I said for general use...

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I got over 6 1/2 hours of SOT yesterday with it on Max.
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I got close to 7.5 on medium. It's just not necessary for what I do. If I'm going to use VR then I'll switch to it, but I don't so there's no need for me.

ziggy3055 said:
I got close to 7.5 on medium. It's just not necessary for what I do. If I'm going to use VR then I'll switch to it, but I don't so there's no need for me.
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I put mine on medium and got maybe a extra 15mins.
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bonerp said:
I said for general use...
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Exactly I want my screen to look the best it can every second I am on it. Not just for videos or movies or games. But different strokes for different fokes

jason504 said:
I put mine on medium and got maybe a extra 15mins.
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Nice