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Hemi-Cuda · 07-06-2013, 01:35 AM

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At the same time the Note 2 has a 720p, 5.5"screen. How the Xperia ZU will fair with a similar sized battery despite a larger 1080p screen.

The LG Optimus G Pro has a 5.5 1080p screen (one of the best phone displays ever made from the reviews) and the battery life is comparable to a Note 2

puckluck2 · 07-21-2013, 01:06 AM

My battery will not charge! Anybody have an idea as to why?

Gravitykillr · 07-21-2013, 01:20 AM

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Originally Posted by puckluck2

My battery will not charge! Anybody have an idea as to why?

Are you using the Standard USB cord that came with it? I had the same issue and I went out and bought the rocketfish from bestbuy for $14.95 and my phone charges perfectly now.

puckluck2 · 07-21-2013, 06:26 AM

Yeah I am...well that seems odd. So the phone does not only feel cheap, it is cheaply made.

puckluck2 · 07-21-2013, 10:26 AM

So I tried using an old LG charger and still no luck. Googled the problem and it seems to be a widespread problem with several different fixes. Shouldn't they cover this under warranty?

Diemenz · 08-16-2013, 10:27 AM

For those who have rooted their phones and gone the custom Rom route what Rom are you using?

I had no issues till this recent update and now my battery has been terrible. I went from a day and a half to 50% by lunch. I am thinking it is time to root and go with a custom rom.

chemgear · 10-01-2013, 02:08 PM

Hmmm not sure where to put this but seemed like an interesting read. Have people noticed this before?

Interesting that they're specifically targeting benchmarks and artificially boosting performance above "normal" when it recognizes the name of the benchmark. I wonder how prevalent this is for the various phone makers.

EDIT: In more recent articles, this apparently applies well beyond Samsung - essentially everybody except Motorola and Apple.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7187/l...ons-galaxy-s-4

We should see roughly an 11% increase in performance in GLBenchmark 2.5.1 over GFXBench 2.7.0, and we end up seeing a bit more than that. The reason for the difference? GLBenchmark 2.5.1 appears to be singled out as a benchmark that is allowed to run the GPU at the higher frequency/voltage setting.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/...s-by-up-to-20/

Above is a picture of Geekbench and of Stealthbench, which is identical to Geekbench in every way except for a different package name. With Geekbench, System Monitor shows that the CPU is locked into 2.3GHz mode and all cores are active, but in Stealthbench, the CPU is allowed to idle, shut off cores, and switch power modes, the same way it does in any other app. We have successfully disabled the special benchmark mode.

Geekbench is a popular benchmarking app, so the Note is programmed to give it special treatment. It has never heard of "Stealthbench," though, so despite being the exact same app, it does not get the special benchmark boost. The Note will run thisbenchmark like 99.99999 percent of the other apps on the device. The next step, then, is to run the two benchmarks and compare the CPU's benchmark mode with its non-benchmark mode.

The difference is remarkable. In Geekbench's multicore test, the Note 3's benchmark mode gives the device a 20 percent boost over its "natural" score. With the benchmark boosting logic stripped away, the Note 3 drops down to LG G2 levels, which is where we initially expected the score to be, given the identical SoCs. This big of a boost means that the Note 3 is not just messing with the CPU idle levels; significantly more oomph is unlocked when the device runs a benchmark.

HotHotHeat · 10-01-2013, 03:23 PM

^Lol. Samsung being Samsung.

Bertuzzied · 10-01-2013, 04:05 PM

^LOL. HotHotHeat being HotHotHeat.

edslunch · 10-02-2013, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

^LOL. HotHotHeat being HotHotHeat.

You don't need to be an Apple fan to lol at this Samsung move. It's borderline fraud

FanIn80 · 10-02-2013, 03:23 PM

Bertuzzied · 10-02-2013, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by edslunch

You don't need to be an Apple fan to lol at this Samsung move. It's borderline fraud

haha. Apple fans are comparing benchmarks and cpu/gpu numbers.

The next Samsung S5 will beat the 5s's numbers big time.

DownInFlames · 10-02-2013, 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

haha. Apple fans are comparing benchmarks and cpu/gpu numbers.

The next Samsung S5 will beat the 5s's numbers big time.

And then the iPhone 6 will probably beat the S5. Really, who cares? Name me one person who chose an Android over an iPhone, or vice versa because of ####ing benchmarks.

chemgear · 10-02-2013, 07:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

haha. Apple fans are comparing benchmarks and cpu/gpu numbers.

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Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

and i like how you distort the test by posting different charts. ahhahahaa

hahaha where was your jpg of the actual s3 benchmark? baaa baaaaaaa

a 15 second google search turned up this.
http://www.extremetech.com/computing...an-the-nexus-7

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Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

once again you linked the jpg. link the article so we can see what context and what conditions were used when running the benchmark test.

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Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

and then when you click his link from your article it gives us this chart.....??
http://browser.primatelabs.com/android-benchmarks

ummmm it shows the Galaxy with a score of 1755, and the ASUS Nexus 7 with a benchmark of 1631, both higher than the 1601 score by the A6.

Did he hope that no one would click the link? hehehehehe

Diemenz · 10-02-2013, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by FanIn80

What was samsung thinking using an industry standardized plug in......Dirty thieves.

I also think Nokia are rediculous for releasing the exact same color phones as the iPhone 5C, even though the 5C came out 2 years after the nokia's I'm pretty sure they still copied apple.

FanIn80 · 10-02-2013, 10:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Diemenz

What was samsung thinking using an industry standardized plug in...

I think you might be focusing on the wrong ends of those cables.

MrMastodonFarm · 10-02-2013, 11:06 PM

How old is that picture/comparison? Gotta be three plus years there.

RedMileDJ · 10-03-2013, 12:55 AM

Anyone going to get the GS4 Mini? I was thinking of getting it for my wife.

Rathji · 10-03-2013, 06:55 AM

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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

How old is that picture/comparison? Gotta be three plus years there.

Its from an S2 I believe, where Samsung was hit with the patent stuff.

starseed · 10-03-2013, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by DownInFlames

And then the iPhone 6 will probably beat the S5. Really, who cares? Name me one person who chose an Android over an iPhone, or vice versa because of ####ing benchmarks.

This is true.

My iPhone 4 is a bit dated and slowing down, so I have decided to upgrade. I gave serious consideration to android, but after playing around with the bf's Samsung, I cannot get behind the android interface. Apple is just too good with design and the user interface.

That said, Windows is getting closer to gaining my interest. Maybe they will come out with something good when the 5s gets outdated. I think having microsoft swallow up all of the world's business-anthropologists is starting to pay off.