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Samsung Galaxy S4 (1 Viewer)
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drummer
Footballguy
I have Dolphin, Chrome, FF, and UC on mine along with the crappy stock. The new Dolphin update is now my default.
Quez
Footballguy
Any idea how to google seach by time using chrome mobile? I see the option for search tools on dolphin, but can't find it on chrome.I ended up installing Google chrome so I had access to all my bookmarks.
17seconds
root of all aliai
This is more like always being way out of sync and Sprint is really bad. And all of their technical expertise is on the network side. They don't drive the device makers at all compared to other operators. There's always a big risk of having a crappy device experience with Sprint IMO.
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Wingnut
Footballguy
I hear the price tag will be close to $700 for the Google S4. No way worth all that coin when you can flash bare bones Android ROMs on any S4. I think the google branded ones are geared more towards developers than every day regular Joes.I'm thinking about giving a ROM a try, what's your opinion of CM10? What do you like more about Liquid Smooth? What other ROMs have you driven?
boots11234
Footballguy
Is there a 'to the top' of the page when using Chrome.
Also how so you put it in drive mode so the buttons are bigger? I did it once but can't remember now
Also how so you put it in drive mode so the buttons are bigger? I did it once but can't remember now
lumpy19
Footballguy
Just picked up my S4 and kept my unlimited data. Went to VZW store and added a line to my account to get the S4 at upgrade price. Transferred the S4 to my unlimited number and then the VZW employee activated a really old phone I used to have on the account to make the new line voice only, $10/month. Going to pick up an old flip phone and just keep it at the house as our "house" phone.
RUSF18
Footballguy
Just got my phone yesterday...can you share some of these "other" notification systems and how to get them? Are they available in the store?
snogger
Footballguy
I ended up purchasing this one which I like.
Just picked up my S4 and kept my unlimited data. Went to VZW store and added a line to my account to get the S4 at upgrade price. Transferred the S4 to my unlimited number and then the VZW employee activated a really old phone I used to have on the account to make the new line voice only, $10/month. Going to pick up an old flip phone and just keep it at the house as our "house" phone.
Samsung S4 Flip cover
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
I hadn't thought of this.
Just picked up my S4 and kept my unlimited data. Went to VZW store and added a line to my account to get the S4 at upgrade price. Transferred the S4 to my unlimited number and then the VZW employee activated a really old phone I used to have on the account to make the new line voice only, $10/month. Going to pick up an old flip phone and just keep it at the house as our "house" phone.
So I could use one of my other lines that's due for an upgrade to get the phone and then transfer that phone to my line (which has unlimited data like you have)?
drummer
Footballguy
Yeah, reading about the Google branded S4 and HTC One, you lose a lot of features that are the selling points that are optimized for the hardware, like the sensors and camera. For users like me who want's the bleeding edge of Android development, I trade the Sammy TW stuff to have more control over the device, and also help test nightly's and such. I'm a huge believer in Open Source, really like barebones stock OS to build on, and love the root apps because it takes away a layer of carrier and manufacture bloat.
The ROM I currently use, RootBox has CyanMod as part of it's base, along with AOKP and ParanoidAndroid, the three leading cutting edge Android dev frameworks. It's in a constant state of development with a great team behind it. In fact, I just got an update for the latest nightly to flash, which I think has that CM patch for the latest Android security vulnerability. I've been flashing and rooting for years, so I can re-mod my device in a hurry and know the workarounds. For someone new to this, predicated on your device, I would suggest a TW ROM if you have a Galaxy S3 or S4 device to get you started, and if you are familiar comfortable with the GUI. For the S3, CleanRom is one of the best, along with Beanstown's ROM, which for the S3 is in a bit of a lag in development, mostly due to they building for the S4. Bean's ROM's have that AOSP feel on the TW base, so that's a nice ROM to help transition into a pure AOSP or AOKP ROM. Those two ROM's still have the Sammy software like Multi-Window and and the S stuff, with the latest modem (although I did have to flash MF1 on CleanRom7 even though it's baked in the base, which I dunno why, and since went back to RootBox which has MF1).
I suggest finding the thread for your device and carrier on XDA, read thoroughly about how to setup the device for ROM's and especially learn about using Odin, which is a desktop recovery in case you brick it. You need to find the stock image as well. Also learn how to backup the device either in Titanium or Nandroid.
Good luck, and if anybody has any question's just send me a PM.
ETA, I'd use Liquid over CM10 for an AOSP ROM. Liquid's team does some great stuff, and the ROM is buttery smooth. I don't use CM10 because it lacks a lot of features that other devs bake in. But it's a rock solid base, and a lot of devs use CM in their AOSP ROM's already.
ETA II: Liquid and RootBox use CyanMod's kernel. So you're good there if you decide on those.
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Team Legacy
Footballguy
FYI, on my third charger now. Verizon has been replacing them no problem.
RUSF18
Footballguy
Is the problem that it won't get to a full charge, not staying in the charging port, or something else? Just want to know what to look out for. Thanks
snogger
Footballguy
I have the charger that came with it at work which works just fine. I also have many other chargers at home from my old blackberry as well as my kindle and all work. 
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Team Legacy
Footballguy
No, it fits in snug and secure, but it just stops charging the phone, powered on or off. They replaced it with what looked like an even better charger, one that lights up on the end, but it too went bad. Again they replaced it for me. Mind you this is all within one month of owning the phoneLovThere are lots of forums talking about it.
Here's a google search:
Love the phone though, except for the occasional reboot I've had happen a few times.
snogger
Footballguy
Beginning to think the issue is with the phone, not the charger..
I've never had a random reboot or charging issues and I received it the week it was released.
lumpy19
Footballguy
Yup.I hadn't thought of this.
Just picked up my S4 and kept my unlimited data. Went to VZW store and added a line to my account to get the S4 at upgrade price. Transferred the S4 to my unlimited number and then the VZW employee activated a really old phone I used to have on the account to make the new line voice only, $10/month. Going to pick up an old flip phone and just keep it at the house as our "house" phone.
So I could use one of my other lines that's due for an upgrade to get the phone and then transfer that phone to my line (which has unlimited data like you have)?
Also to address the case issue I went with an otterbox defender, very happy with the choice. It sucks for sliding in and out of my pocket but with 2 little kids I'll deal with that.
beer 302
Footballguy
HELP! Wife just got this phone 2 weeks ago brand new, loves it. Issue that has come up over the weekend, the damn thing has started rebooting on it's own and wont stop. Reboots, shuts down, reboots, shuts down, reboots until the battery is dead. I've searched all over the net and there doesn't seem to be a fix that I've found, anybody else having this issue?
Working on it now, completely unusable, just keeps cycling on & off. I've pulled the SD card, taken the battery out, turned WIFI off, nothing is helping. Just continues to keep cycling on & off.
It's new from Ting, wife has spent an incredible amount of ime entering contacts into it so if I can fix myself instead of sending it bak for a new I would much rather do that. Any help is appreciated!
Working on it now, completely unusable, just keeps cycling on & off. I've pulled the SD card, taken the battery out, turned WIFI off, nothing is helping. Just continues to keep cycling on & off.
It's new from Ting, wife has spent an incredible amount of ime entering contacts into it so if I can fix myself instead of sending it bak for a new I would much rather do that. Any help is appreciated!
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beer 302
Footballguy
Futz'd around with it while chatting with a Samsung rep, got it into safe mode after wiping the cache clean and that fixed the rebooting problems. The rep also recommended I download keis so we can backup the phone (and contacts) before attempting a factory reset. If that doesn't work then the phone will most likely have to go back for a new one.
drummer
Footballguy
Weird. Google syncs all my contacts via the account in Gmail on the desktop in any browser. Kies sucks. Never used it. Sounds like you had a problem with the bootloader. I've gotten into bootloops flashing ROMs, and had to re-flash them via custom recovery.
matuski
Footballguy
Bogeys
Footballguy
I have a question that probably has a simple fix so feel free to make fun...please answer the question though. 
When I charge the phone at night it always turns the screen back on when it is done charging. I am guessing this is some type of notification thing, but how do I get the screen to go off after 30 seconds or so? I am sure it is a simple setting but I am coming from iOS and don't have a clue where to find this.
TYIA
When I charge the phone at night it always turns the screen back on when it is done charging. I am guessing this is some type of notification thing, but how do I get the screen to go off after 30 seconds or so? I am sure it is a simple setting but I am coming from iOS and don't have a clue where to find this.
TYIA
Jaysus
Good times!
This.
There is absolutely ZERO reason that fn Teener should not be using her Google account to store her contacts.
Yes, they call it "email"
Fishboy
Footballguy
Yes, with the latest upgrade you can move Apps to the SD card.
Gets a little annoying with every app upgrade the notification bar tells me the app was updated and that it can be moved to the SD card.
Settings>More>Developer Options>Uncheck "Stay Awake"I have a question that probably has a simple fix so feel free to make fun...please answer the question though.
When I charge the phone at night it always turns the screen back on when it is done charging. I am guessing this is some type of notification thing, but how do I get the screen to go off after 30 seconds or so? I am sure it is a simple setting but I am coming from iOS and don't have a clue where to find this.
TYIA
towney
Footballguy
Thanks, glad to here they had a software update for this. Now to decide between the HTC one and the S4, any comments from S4 owners.
Davej626
5.56 solves all
Bogeys
Footballguy
Thanks Scotty!Settings>More>Developer Options>Uncheck "Stay Awake"I have a question that probably has a simple fix so feel free to make fun...please answer the question though.
When I charge the phone at night it always turns the screen back on when it is done charging. I am guessing this is some type of notification thing, but how do I get the screen to go off after 30 seconds or so? I am sure it is a simple setting but I am coming from iOS and don't have a clue where to find this.
TYIA
I actually don't feel bad about it now, I never would have thought to look there.
beer 302
Footballguy
In my limited experience with them I'd go with the HTC.Yesterday, whilst talking with the knot hole I discovered that her phone works fine on our home WIFI. As soon as it switches to 3/4G it starts the reboot dance. I was going to try the factory reset but she drug her feet doing stupid women stuff so I threw in the towel and went to bed, maybe tonight. If that doesn't work then it goes back.
beer 302
Footballguy
Did the factory reset last night and that seemed to fixed it for know. If you do this make sure you back everything up! Goofy lost pics she neglected to move to somewhere safe. Upside the process was pretty painless and when it fired back up & logged her back in, it re-upped all her apps which was cool.
culdeus
Footballguy
What's an easy way to shrink down videos to send in an email? It's one thing I really miss about iphong. You could compress videos in one click just in the stock email app, or MMS.
seems a big oversight to me. MMS is still a huge pain. All the iphone users use it too much to see it vanish anytime soon. (or ever)
seems a big oversight to me. MMS is still a huge pain. All the iphone users use it too much to see it vanish anytime soon. (or ever)
St. Louis Bob
Footballguy
bd
matuski
Footballguy
RUSF18
Footballguy
I get group texts like iphone users do on my S4, all in one thread where multiple people are responding. Big improvement over my last Droid when I'd go nuts every time I got included in one, having them show up as individual messages where you can't follow the conversation.
No. 16
Footballguy
Verizon?
My buddy has Verizon S3 and has MMS all grouped together. I have a AT&T S3 and it's a pain group messaging.
matuski
Footballguy
This.. ATT S3, and while the phone is badass and all, group texting happens a lot in my business and personal circles. Enough of a pain to consider switching.
Davej626
5.56 solves all
beer 302
Footballguy
Anyway to offload some of that crap? Wife has 2 pages of #### on her phone she will never use, would love to 86 it but just trying to drag the apps off to the trashcan doesn't seem to work.SofaKings said:
Side note, factory reset has worked well for the constant rebooting we were experiencing with her phone. Just make sure you back everything up.
RUSF18
Footballguy
Yep, Verizon on S4. Here's a screencap of a group text between me and a few Verizon/iPhone buddies. Apologies to Tim Hudson for bringing back any painful memories:matuski said:
http://tinypic.com/r/2zivgjm/5
Wingnut
Footballguy
I created a folder and put all the junk apps in it. They're still on my phone but I never have to see those app icons again
