Samsung Galaxy S4 thread - See Mod Warning in Post #1

I hardly use the phone to make calls during work I would mainly use it to read e mails send texts,And browse through the stories on the Journal. ie.
I would also use the music player while going training in the morning for 90 minutes which uses about 10/15% of the battery.

I get about 10/12 hours out of the battery since I took it off charge this morning around 8ish ,The battery has gone down to 90% and that's just reading e mails and posting on boards.

Cossax wrote: »

How do you find it vs. TW based roms? Anything very obviously broken?
I've Sammy's 4.2.2 on it and I've a Nexus 4 also and much prefer using the Nexus 4 at times, that little bit snappier despite being older/less powerful so 4.3 GE might be a nice change.

The main problem for me with GPE 4.3 vs TW is the new security - Google hasn't been very open about what exactly has changed - LBE Security Master doesn't work properly any more. I'm hyper-privacy concerned and the stock ROM just pours out personal data to Google, Samsung and individual apps, but as I said, I use XPosed/XPrivacy and that gives me very detailed control over what personal data apps can access (main thing being my phone number/ID/IMSI/IMEI, location and contacts.

The 'Pure Android (4.3)' Google Play Edition loses nothing important for me compared to Samsung's stock ROM - I never used all the waving/proximity/audio gizmos - but if you still want them a lot of them are available freely from the Play Store as individual apps.

People finding the Android system using up the battery shouldn't be too concerned. Google's services/framework (Google Settings etc.) has been given a lot more 'work' to do - Ads, Location, Google+, Phone Finder etc - so it looks like it's taking up huge amounts of battery life but it's actually doing most of the Google/Android functions now AFAIK.

PS: The special cover (forget the name) still works with GPE 4.3.
PPS: I'm downloading the MoDaCo dual-boot ROM right now (I'm a glutton for punishment) - can't wait to try it out.

siobhanoh wrote: »

Bought the S4 last Thursday. Today the battery is draining very fast and the main culprit is 'Android OS' at 85%. I have been looking around online and apparently that is a very high percentage. All apps are closed, I turned it off, took out the battery and restarted it but it is still the same. I tweeted Three about it and they said to bring it into the shop. I'm going away tomorrow and I really don't want to waste time going to the Three shop if I don't have to. Does anybody know if this is a defect?

Factory reset??

also getting cant connect to server

markc91 wrote: »

Woke up today and seen a security policy update available so went to download it but it failed and said update failed due to network issues tried on 3g and wifi getting the same error message anyone got any ideas?

exact same issue here. lots of reports of similar problem in UK.

Achilles wrote: »

As a previous Nexus 4 owner - the S4 is a better device in purely user experience.

User experience wise the S4 doesn't have a patch on stock Nexus. In everyday use I still prefer my galaxy nexus over my s4. They over complicate a simple snappy OS with gimmicks IMO. GE edition would be best of both worlds though

Achilles wrote: »

As a previous Nexus 4 owner - the S4 is a better device in purely user experience.

I do miss the toggles on the secondary menu of the notification shade, easily fixable if I want but just slightly annoying to have to fix. +1 for the S4.

Other than that, I prefer the Nexus 4 (despite only getting the 8gig version compared to 16 gig + SD for my S4). Part of that may be as I used CyanogenMod on my S2 so vanilla feels more familiar than TW does.
In general, I find it snappier, the interface cleaner and I'd frozen all the gimmicks on the S4 anyway while the battery, despite being smaller, seems about the same.

anyone got any idea as to why my messages are being delivered to both my sms and my email address??

Cossax wrote: »

I do miss the toggles on the secondary menu of the notification shade, easily fixable if I want but just slightly annoying to have to fix. +1 for the S4.

Other than that, I prefer the Nexus 4 (despite only getting the 8gig version compared to 16 gig + SD for my S4). Part of that may be as I used CyanogenMod on my S2 so vanilla feels more familiar than TW does.
In general, I find it snappier, the interface cleaner and I'd frozen all the gimmicks on the S4 anyway while the battery, despite being smaller, seems about the same.

Use the Google Edition Rom. Same thing.

Rebooted my phone this morning and its gone.

rogieop wrote: »

anyone got any idea as to why my messages are being delivered to both my sms and my email address??

this i'd love to know as well, at the start i was getting them on viber as well but i figured out how to stop that. i now just need to figure out how to stop them coming by email..

Just got a 50mb or so update on Meteor S4. Not sure what it is, installed it, cant see anything new as yet.