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Senior - BHPian ![]() Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Gurgaon
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week long service they needed! Iknow others whose phone screens have dead pixels and suchlike in 1.5 years. Build quality looks exceptional. Problem free, no way. | |
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Finally, I am now able to track the shipment. I suggest you send in a mail to their customer service mail ID. I got prompt response after I send in my concern. Quote:
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Senior - BHPian ![]() Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Kannur
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| ![]() Nexus 4 - 16GB - is available for Preorder Store: Flipkart Price: 25990 Is it worth? |
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The only phone I had no problems with was my Motorola milestone and how I abused that phone. Flung it across a room sop hard once that the battery popped out and even the SIM card came loose. Not a scratch on the phone and no problems. My S2's battery started dying on me and the Radios went bust. My Lumia 710 had similar problems. If my Sony XZ doesn't last I'll either switch to an HTC or back to a Motorola. One great thing about the SXZ is that I can use it at home. No other phone has been able to make calls from home except for my milestone. I get full network on all, but I can't hear the other party and they can't hear me. Also one benefit of the SXZ is that I can use the tough screen with sweaty fingers and the phone can survive random rain showers. Quote:
There is not much of a difference. The beauty of Android is that it is open source, it'll be unlikely that you will not find an OS for your phone regardless of the Processor. It's just that a Kernel / OS optimised to run on a qualcomm processor, when ported to a non qualcomm processor will not be as good on it. minor issues will be there. Battery life may not be as good, may not be as quick, may not be as stable. Last edited by Sprucegoose : 15th May 2013 at 18:04. | ||
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vs an S3 , you get faster updates from android, cleaner stock android, faster chipset(both GPU and CPU) But you have some downers like a little inferior Screen and the camera. The price is about 6K premium over the US Play Store price, similar to the N7. A little over what was expected. But google really needs to speed up its launches in India. | |
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Senior - BHPian Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Bangalore
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| ![]() Anyone ordered Lava XOLO Q700 , it was announced yesterday and sold out with in a day when my friend enquired. This is probably first sub 10K phone with Android 4.2 and first one enabling android multi user Here are the specs at 9700Rs looks like a good buy in that segment http://www.themobiworld.com/News/107...-Specification |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: cincinnati, jabalpur,chennai
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Senior - BHPian Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Bangalore
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| ![]() Buddy have a look at motherboard of a modern phone and check if it is really servicable by average joe you can employ at service centre ? I bet not more then 1 out of 50 technicians can handle soldring iron to replace components on the boards with that fine layout. If you have a large customer base then to ensure quick turnaround time It is better to device the strategies so that an average low skilled service personal can handle the situation rather then a couple of master service centres with ace technicians to diaganose and repair. Quote:
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The custom rom vendors mostly modify the system image and not kernel image. Even many so called custom ROMs are actually different mix of application and Launcher UX on the base software from manufacturer else it can not be a one man effort. I do not belive that an average custom ROM developer even if he is genius can do the job of 30-40 developers. Creating an entierly new image right from scratch and take to production level includers that kind of effort In fact most motorola phones have locked bootloader the steps you see to load a custom binary are just replacing the system image on same stock kernel. There are vulnerabilities in Qualcomm trust zone implementation and Motorola bootloader got unlocked last month but that is not same as custom ROM development. http://blog.azimuthsecurity.com/2013...ootloader.html I am not belittling effort of any independent enthusiast they are really brilliant people who by pass all the chains and locks but really speaking they do stand on shoulders of many others. Some of these people are real genius but not all. Quote:
Samsung carefully studied market and established network by investing in service chain to match them . Once you decide to have service centre in every nook and corner you can not expect highly skilled and trained technicians to be available for a consumer item. It has to meet criteria of faster servicability. Similarly when you expect to sell your product to the tune of 40-50 million units design needs to be optimized for factory process both for hardware and software and there has to be enough investment. Last edited by amitk26 : 15th May 2013 at 18:39. | |||||
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the flinging was a mistake. [Motorola Milestone] thought i was holding the slide in case with the open end towards me. when i pretended the fling the phone... the damn thing flew out and almost impaled my friend. ![]() Quote:
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I've not seen any device survive that kind of an impact. without at least the glass cracking. I guess I was just lucky. Quote:
whenever i received a call the phone freeze and had to be restarted. I changed the baseband, the kernel and the OS to no avail. I even flashed back to stock and nothing changed. Phone got lost before i could take it to a service center Data worked fine though [2G and 3G] it was just with calls. if i made a call and the other party didn't pick up it would freeze and i'd have to restart the phone Quote:
only the SXZ and the milestone before it could i use while at home. SGS2, Lumia 710 and a nokia Dumb phone show 4 - 5 bars [5 being full], but you can't hear the other guy and he/she can''t hear you. my friends' HTCs also don't work properly. Blackberrys work though. The SXZ works which was a relief. Quote:
what a pain. Read an article somewhere that the CyanogenMod team was going to stop development for Exynos processor based phones. they will still release the source code and I'm sure other developers will port CM to the Exynos, but the CM team is going to stop officially. http://www.xda-developers.com/androi...ntation-issue/ Quote:
And Samsung have addressed that issue well. Last edited by Sprucegoose : 15th May 2013 at 19:06. | |||||||
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Distinguished - BHPian ![]() ![]() | ![]() Finally solved the battery drain issues with my Samsung S2 after the upgrade to JB. Installed the latest version of the Firmware from Kies, but it didn't help much. Then did a factory reset, which also did limited saving - then after several days realized that the screen had become the biggest guzzler. I installed an app called Screen filter which basically reduces the auto brightness with a negative offset. I keep it around 80% and it really is saving a lot of battery and my phone is back to good old days! |
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I had this one... Huge improvement, but then again the phone was twice it's original size. http://www.mugen-power-batteries.com...tery-door.html http://www.mugen-power-batteries.com...ii-si9100.html | |
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You were right about the screen being an absolute battery hog, a 10% charge can sustain an hour of talk time, but have the screen on for some reason and you'd be doomed in less than 15 minutes. | |
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Managed to brick my phone while messing around. All is cool now. Didn't get any pop up asking me to upgrade though. Though battery life seems to have improved though. 2 hours of listening to music with bluetooth on and i drop 2 or 3 % only.. though 10 minutes of screen on time while gaming and i've dropped like 5 - 7 % It's unlikely that any software update will fix the battery drain caused by the screen because these full HD screens require a really strong back light, which hogs the battery. When i'm up and about again i'll be going in for an external battery. just so that i can make sure i always have some juice on me... if you know what i mean ![]() | |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() | ![]() @manson, XZ did have an upgrade and the upgrade went smoothly. The black notification bar is now present and so is the screen calibration tool. fixed issues with stamina mode messing up led and led flash notifications are also in. camera picture quality in auto is supposedly improved, although i am yet to test that. |
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BHPian ![]() | ![]() I'm surprised no one has mentioned about Google I/O so far. The keynote event at Google I/O starts in less than 20 minutes. You can watch it live here - https://developers.google.com/events/io/ |
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