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  • AnonD-116479
  • tes
  • 01 Sep 2013

[deleted post]The exact reason for the lag is, most users just tap the home button (center button) after used the app. Then what happen is it's running background. It's overload the RAM and the phone is start to lagging. After you used a app, please close them rather run in background. Then how to do it,

1 Hold down the home button.
2 Then tap the icon on the bottom left.
3 Then select "Active apps" (top left).
4 Then close some or all apps.

Some people just close the apps in wrong way. Most users I have seen closing the apps by holding the home key. Then it will appear the recently opened apps. After that they swipe either left or right to close. That is wrong, it will close just the list of recently opened apps. The above mentioned procedures are the right way.

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    • AnonD-252
    • J5N
    • 01 Sep 2013

    Are not teachers and professors... "professional people"? And students keep their Androids when they get a job after they graduate!

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      • Mahesh kumar
      • rJI
      • 01 Sep 2013

      [deleted post]Hi.....
      . Presently i am using Lumia 610 now i am planning to purchase an android phone like Samsung device or which one i should purchase.

        AnonD-116479, 01 Sep 2013That's what I was intended earlier. Mostly students, includ... morea geek or a tech enthusiast will never use an iphone or blackberry phone. simply because they are too restricted for a developer.

        an expert will simply prefer an open source ecosystem. I don't use Windows and use ubuntu(linux) . It offers far more freedom than windows.

        businessmen will use blackberry due to its seamless integration and bbm.
        a businessman needs emails and messages and files which are pretty good with these 2 ecosystems. but Android gives you a full mini computer in your hands. It has so many options and the application and the scope is too wide to make it work the way we want.

        like you said that s4 is slow compared to htc one. okay to make it faster I can root and install stock rom. That will be much faster than even htc one as stock android is pure and faster than anything. nexus 4 never lags due to super light ui. hence s4 will be even faster and hence bye bye lag.

        so you can see that Android being an open source os gives us much more than ios or bb10.

          AnonD-116479, 01 Sep 2013Hello Bro, I would like to add something into your comment.... moreI think you misunderstood me.
          I was just telling the recommended options. I know that most(more than 90%) of s4 users here in India don't even know how to operate it and not even its full potential. and why they bought it? simply because it's Samsung galaxy phone. This is the true reality. They purchase it to show it off to their friends and all. everybody knows Samsung in India and is very popular here. hence the probability of a normal non-technical person going to buy an s4 is far greater than htc one.

          and most people who own htc one know about it and all the phones available as htc one is much less popular. hence they are generally more technically advanced people than a simple layman using s4.

          a much more technically advanced person will buy s4 due to the freedom and options available stock and the power and ddr3 ram offered by exynos 5 octa. also it has much more advanced audio codec support. You can check playing mkv files with ac3 on your default video player on htc one. s4 video player plays just every file and offers much more options.

          You just try touchwiz once. It looks bad but works great. it just gives you more in every software.

          I am not saying that s4 is better than htc one.

          a person buying s4 might not know what htc one is but a person buying htc one surely knows what s4 is.

          And hence toy can see many people here complaining about heating, lags and all that shit as they don't know how to operate the phone as s4 is pretty complex and htc one is super easy and is made for a general consumer.hence htc one users are very happy.

          Have a nice Sunday. btw I am also 17.

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            • Asif
            • P$I
            • 01 Sep 2013

            Whats the Today's Price??? in Europe S4

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              • AnonD-116479
              • tes
              • 01 Sep 2013

              AnonD-252, 01 Sep 2013At "my" university Android is far more popular th... moreThat's what I was intended earlier. Mostly students, including myself and teenagers carrying an Android phones. But take a look at a professional person, majority of them are using either BlackBerry or iPhone.

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                • AnonD-252
                • J5P
                • 01 Sep 2013

                AnonD-116479, 01 Sep 2013Hello Bro, I would like to add something into your comment.... moreAt "my" university Android is far more popular than iPhone, and Blackberry does not even exist in Sweden!

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                  • AnonD-116479
                  • tes
                  • 01 Sep 2013

                  shubham yadav, 30 Aug 2013Yeah but where do you live? There must be surely i9505 ther... moreHello Bro, I would like to add something into your comment.

                  Not every person who uses Galaxy S4 are experts or geeks; on the contrary, some are experts. The majority of customers who come to our store for but a Galaxy S4 are teenagers, age between 17-21. Some customers are well aware about the S4 and some are coming without even pre knowledge about S4. On the other hand, some customers come to buy an S4 with a great intention. Soon after they saw an HTC One, quickly changing their decision and vice versa.
                  Most customers who come to buy an HTC One is youth people, age between 20-25. They are some sort of loyal customers towards HTC Phones. Most probably their previous phone is an HTC either. They are coming to buy a HTC phone according to their past experiences.

                  My eldest brother is an associate telecommunication engineer and he is a genius about technology. Since he is using a BlackBerry Z10, Galaxy S2 is the only Android phone he ever used as an Android phone. I asked him why are you using BlackBerry phones? Then he said I don’t want a fancy Android phones with millions of features that I never use in my day to day life and still they are lagging and slow. I’m using a BlackBerry because of its powerful and smooth OS, excellent E-mail and business apps (BlackBerry Hub), lighten speed web browsing and excellent keyboard can type fast and accurately. My other elder brother who owns the store is using an iPhone 5.

                  Many professional customers such as businessmen, doctors and engineers; who come to our store are preferably buying an either BlackBerry or iPhone. Some businessmen even purchase a phablet phone like Note 2 and Xperia Z Ultra.

                  Mostly teenagers and youth people like us are using Fancy Android phones like S4, HTC One and Xperia Z.

                  However we cannot stereotype the large population of different customer segments by looking at a small cluster of customers in a small store. But if we observe in the outside world carefully we will understand the reality.

                    arshad, 30 Aug 2013i am using galaxy s4, battery timing is too less. i have to... moreWhat do expect from a 2600 mAh battery anyway? I am sure you use your phone a lot, play games, watch videos and all and still expect Nokia 1200 like backup! Why? How?

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                      • a7x
                      • 9xP
                      • 31 Aug 2013

                      I really want to buy the s4 but hearing a lot of people getting cracked screens online... I wear a lot of levis skinny 511s... Is the s4 screen durable enough to keep it in my front pocket?

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                        • AnonD-181000
                        • YUf
                        • 31 Aug 2013

                        AnonD-78939, 31 Aug 2013NO ..............None of the Android phones can play asphal... moreYeah ! Your'e right ! That's the way to do that !

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                          • AnonD-181000
                          • YUf
                          • 31 Aug 2013

                          AnonD-78939, 31 Aug 2013NO ..............None of the Android phones can play asphal... moreYour right dude....!!

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                            • AnonD-181000
                            • YUf
                            • 31 Aug 2013

                            I thought samsung galaxy s4 will be more featured than samsung s3...!! So it is not as i thought...!!

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                              • Anonymous
                              • YQ%
                              • 31 Aug 2013

                              arshad, 30 Aug 2013i am using galaxy s4, battery timing is too less. i have to... moreHey buddy grab a Nokia DC-16 PORTABLE CHARGER , there will be no further recharge problems

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                                • sam
                                • utv
                                • 31 Aug 2013

                                Faizu, 30 Aug 2013Hahaha you should buy 3310:/My s4 works whole day even after playing game for 3-4 hours.
                                Nokia 3310 is good for people like you

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                                  • AnonD-78939
                                  • 2T7
                                  • 31 Aug 2013

                                  AnonD-12498, 31 Aug 2013can this s4 runs beast game like asphalt8:airborne at 50fp... moreNO ..............None of the Android phones can play asphalt 8 at more than 45 fps.
                                  If you want 50-60 fps , either get latest iPhone or iPad.
                                  I advise you to wait for iPhone 5S/iPad 5th gen.

                                  I repeat again (not s4 , not htc one , not even single android device as of now can run it as smooth as iPhone 5 because there is no optimization from gameloft)


                                  You can root the device or update to 4.3 Android version (for OpenGL 3.0) but improvement from OpenGL 3.0 is only a little. (According to some guys at xda)

                                  Its not problem with hardware.Its problem with developer not being able to optimize game as good as they do on iPhone 5 (or A6 Chip)

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                                    • AnonD-180032
                                    • U@R
                                    • 31 Aug 2013

                                    The big guru , 31 Aug 2013Stop drooling. Get a life. Get Nokia 3210While compared to Samsung galaxy s4 Nokia 3210is really really superb phone. It's not abnormally heating and its battery standby is really good.

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                                      • Sam
                                      • rKE
                                      • 31 Aug 2013

                                      HD games, 31 Aug 2013Pls who knows a site to get FREE HD games that are interest... moreThere's too many sites for hd games such as 1.apk mania
                                      2.androgames.apk
                                      3.brothersoft.com
                                      etc...try it yar...

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                                        • vilas
                                        • U@E
                                        • 31 Aug 2013

                                        2 year's use nokia n8 you tube donloader I am fine and I use 15th days s4 but not n8 compire n8 as well but screen size short pleas nokia update n8 not good windows