Hello folks,
I would like to ask you guys how is your experience with the GPS on the Optimus G, as in how fast and reliable is the GPS on it. I'm currently on the LG Nitro HD and as you can any of its users, the GPS is pretty bad on it. At times it can literally take more than 5-10 min to connect, and at other times it won't connect at all until I reboot the phone. I've used many apps to try and aid the locking speed of it but it just won't work at times. And when it does it can constantly lose it too.
I'm thinking of picking up the G one of these days but I'd like to be certain that this issue does not plague the G as well. Please share your experience with me.
Thanks,
Sean
P.s. another major issue is the compass, where it cant hold any bearings at all and constantly flails around in every direction. The only time it works is when I'm driving lol. The moment I stop, it goes nuts and takes my working GPS with it, messing up directions.
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after about 5 seconds, if that
I played golf today and used the lgog as a GPS rangefinder. Got very accurate readings within a couple yards of a laser rangefinder my friend had. It also doesn't seem to use much battery, which is good.
Got a fix within 5 secs or so. Used it for a 4 hour round and had 70 percent left.
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Alpione said:
I played golf today and used the lgog as a GPS rangefinder. Got very accurate readings within a couple yards of a laser rangefinder my friend had. It also doesn't seem to use much battery, which is good.
Got a fix within 5 secs or so. Used it for a 4 hour round and had 70 percent left.
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Awesome! These are good news to my ears (or eyes lol) thx guys. Theytalkalot, what app is that you use in the screenshot?
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Awesome! These are good news to my ears (or eyes lol) thx guys. Theytalkalot, what app is that you use in the screenshot?
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GPS test...works great...gives you all sorts of info...I am coming from the Samsung captivate and that GPS was ok...and this one,LG, blows it away...I have it rooted and the new ROM AND haven't seen it change in performance.
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GPS test...works great...gives you all sorts of info...I am coming from the Samsung captivate and that GPS was ok...and this one,LG, blows it away...I have it rooted and the new ROM AND haven't seen it change in performance.
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Nice! Thnx a lot again!
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Alpione said:
I played golf today and used the lgog as a GPS rangefinder. Got very accurate readings within a couple yards of a laser rangefinder my friend had. It also doesn't seem to use much battery, which is good.
Got a fix within 5 secs or so. Used it for a 4 hour round and had 70 percent left.
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I'm finding the exact opposite right now with the battery use. I was getting a 45% drop overnight while I was sleeping. So last night I turned off the GPS to see if that was causing some drain, and I woke up with only 13% drain. I'm going to do further testing though to see if there are any other items that might be causing this.
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Nice! Thnx a lot again!
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Haha nice to see you here Sean! Thinking about getting one of these myself!
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Haha nice to see you here Sean! Thinking about getting one of these myself!
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Haha, yeah if I can snag it for 99.99 again this Christmas, then I'll switch to it, unless at&t comes out with some other better phone by then, which I highly doubt.
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Who got theirs!? I know I got mine! Shame the boot loader is newer though. Hope that doesn't create problems for S-OFF.
My HBOOT is 1.90.0006
Picking mine up today or Monday!
Want to give me any reviews of your device now incase the Telus version is ****e?
Cheers.
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Picking mine up today or Monday!
Want to give me any reviews of your device now incase the Telus version is ****e?
Cheers.
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Picked mine up yesterday. I'm still playing around with it. Used gps on the way home from the store. It was waaaaaay more responsive than my Hero was. The screen is absolutely beautiful. It's super fast and feels really nice in the hand. The Samsung GS2 was actually too light for my taste. Plus the samsung screen size was a little too big for my smallish hands. Downloading and installing apps happens almost instantly. Really happy so far....but it HAS been less than a day. I've already installed Juice Defender (free) to hopefully alleviate any battery issues.
I do have a question tho. I'm having trouble getting to the media on my SD card. I deleted everything from my SD card from the Hero, dragged my Music folder and Video folder to the card and popped it into the phone but cannot seem to access any of it. What am I missing?
Make sure SD card is mounted in settings
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Got it sorted out. Had to reformat my card. Also had to select sdcard2 or something like that in the folders in PowerAmp.
I love it. Got it today... Replaced my N1... I NOTICE QUITE A bit of light bleed from the soft key LEDs though.... Anyone else notice this?
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Zeusus said:
I love it. Got it today... Replaced my N1... I NOTICE QUITE A bit of light bleed from the soft key LEDs though.... Anyone else notice this?
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I noticed the same, I dont. My only issue is the current lack of unlock codes (none available at this time - I'm on Rogers).
If someone is aware of a SIM unlock method which would only require Temp root that would be awesome
i too picked it up yesterday
i unlocked the bootloader and rooted the rom
installed the recovery
but there are several issue,
1) tried several different roms, the wifi and bluetooth doesn't work other then the stock rom. ( i also notice the flash light doesn't work when using those roms)
2) stock rom doesn't come with the fancy camera,( the one with smart shot )
anyone find any solution?
Just got mine today and loving it. Noticing quite a bit of screen bleed but it doesn't really bother me.
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Im picking mine up this week from the Telus store - can I just ask if its true that there is no SD card included in the box - doesnt look like it from the website info...
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Im picking mine up this week from the Telus store - can I just ask if its true that there is no SD card included in the box - doesnt look like it from the website info...
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It's true though it comes with 16gigs of internal so you have lots to work worth.
bonus if you have a 16 or 32gig to add I have a 16 for music and backups.
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Thinking about replacing my Desire Z with this. How is the battery life for you guys? That's the only thing I'm worred about.
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Thinking about replacing my Desire Z with this. How is the battery life for you guys? That's the only thing I'm worred about.
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I've been using it on wifi only and after screen on for over 4 hours, running mainly apps (Facebook, Google+, XDA, mmajunkie) , Google talk, as well as taking photos and videos I got over 24 hours use before it completely drained.
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I've been using it on wifi only and after screen on for over 4 hours, running mainly apps (Facebook, Google+, XDA, mmajunkie) , Google talk, as well as taking photos and videos I got over 24 hours use before it completely drained.
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You sir are full of it. Trust me even with juice defender the most you probably get with regular 6-7 hrs. From morning till night naw that's the iPhone 4 camp.
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You sir are full of it. Trust me even with juice defender the most you probably get with regular 6-7 hrs. From morning till night naw that's the iPhone 4 camp.
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My usage was 100% on WiFi, yes I had some long periods where the phone just sat but that doesn't change screen on time. From experience the RF network is always the killer. I'd be pretty upset to see under 12 hours on a charge considering I see 14-16 on average using my Inspire 4G (rooted with an RCmix Rom).
Between home and work I'm almost always on WiFi.
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My usage was 100% on WiFi, yes I had some long periods where the phone just sat but that doesn't change screen on time. From experience the RF network is always the killer. I'd be pretty upset to see under 12 hours on a charge considering I see 14-16 on average using my Inspire 4G (rooted with an RCmix Rom).
Between home and work I'm almost always on WiFi.
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yes and he is using one of my roms which allready has a ton of tweaks in it to save battery life i was at 9 hours and it was only half that with mediem use
Can anyone else with a Telus Amaze comment on battery? Gotta say I'm impressed Telus didn't bloat or brand the phone (no Telus boot animation or apps) as well no branding physically on the phone.
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yes and he is using one of my roms which allready has a ton of tweaks in it to save battery life i was at 9 hours and it was only half that with mediem use
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My battery experience must be completed supported by my lack of radio network, I would expect a lot less once I'm actually using a SIM though hopefully still enough juice to reach 10 hours at least.
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Xboarder56. Can you help?
When using your rom with my telus amaze,
I will not have wifi, Bluetooth, and flashlight for camera.
Other then that it all work.
Really want to use your rom.. thanks
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Can anyone else with a Telus Amaze comment on battery? Gotta say I'm impressed Telus didn't bloat or brand the phone (no Telus boot animation or apps) as well no branding physically on the phone.
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Just plugged my phone in to charge up so I can have a full charge in the morning. It was at 52% when I plugged it in. I had just over 12 hrs of light to moderate use today on that 48%.
I am still on stock sense rom and am using Juice Defender Free on aggressive setting. I saw no signs of the aggressive setting inhibiting performance. So far battery life is not as bad as I had heard it would be.
I was just wondering how much time everyone spends using or playing with Galaxy Note2 per day average? I spend about 5~6 hours and I can't control it.
If im not working, Usually ~8-9 hours sometimes longer. Ive had it alnost 2 months and still can hardly put it down
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On the phone for work a lot so probably 9+.
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If im not working, Usually ~8-9 hours sometimes longer. Ive had it alnost 2 months and still can hardly put it down
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I thought I was the only one spending that much hours lol
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On the phone for work a lot so probably 9+.
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May I ask, what kind of work you do?
I would say, being the geek I am, 4-5 hours of on screen time is logged in per day. That's been the rough average since I've had this phone for only a week.
During the week, 2-3 hours at most. Weekends, anywhere from 2-10, depending on what I'm doing that day.
I'm using my gnote2 all the time. Whenever my hands are free, my phone is in them. Its a lot of phone to learn as stock but now that its rooted I got double the stuff to play with on this bad boy. I quickly got used to the size and now every other phone is tiny and mine is normal. I honestly feel my hands have gotten bigger. Lol. I love this thing
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Im not totally sure but my wife thinks im having an affair with my phone. So much to to so little time
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May I ask, what kind of work you do?
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Primary client account manager for a managed IT service provider.
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Way too much time. Think I'm addicted. Used to come home and then use my nexus 7 but now that I've got my Note 2, i rarely use my tablet anymore (or my home computer). This phone does practically everything i want. A major time killer
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Until this weekend about 2-5. Now that I got the MOGA and MC4 I've been playing about 7-9 hours at least.
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Is just me or does phone have the best gps ever this my third android and iv never had a gps this good its scary how damn well accurate it is
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Is just me or does phone have the best gps ever this my third android and iv never had a gps this good its scary how damn well accurate it is
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I got twenty satellites per gps status (the app). Never saw anything like it.
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It's freakishly accurate. I was doing a number 2, playing with my phone with the GPS on. When I opened the map, I had a birds eye view of myself pooping.
insanely accurate and locks in the second i open the app. my galaxy nexus would struggle sometimes to get a lock but this thing is locked before i even open the app lol
Does anybody know if it possible to use this gps kernel on other phones cause my other phones dont have a gps this damn good if so how to I copy the kernel of the gps on here?
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I've only messed with it once so far. It was very quick to find my position. I'm looking forward to using it when I go visit family in a week. Since I got about 24 hours drive one way, it will get some good road use.
Hey guys, I suppose everyone has seen the g2 commercials, u notice the speed they do the knock knock at the end of the commercial, I started doing my knock at that speed, and its been damn near 100% reliable. Might give it a shot....
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Hey guys, I suppose everyone has seen the g2 commercials, u notice the speed they do the knock knock at the end of the commercial, I started doing my knock at that speed, and its been damn near 100% reliable. Might give it a shot....
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I have always been doing it that way and it is as close to 100% as you can get. People just like to cry about things without trying different ways first. :thumbup:
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I have always been doing it that way and it is as close to 100% as you can get. People just like to cry about things without trying different ways first. :thumbup:
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I hear ya, that's why I made the post.... seen alot of crying about it, and honest in general! Boggles the mind... lol
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Hey guys, I suppose everyone has seen the g2 commercials, u notice the speed they do the knock knock at the end of the commercial, I started doing my knock at that speed, and its been damn near 100% reliable. Might give it a shot....
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Well what is the speed?
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Well what is the speed?
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U haven't seen any of the commercials ..... its about a full second between knocks...
I can't get it top function as all that slow. My habit is 98% tap tap slower than a double click on a mouse probably.4 seconds between
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Approx 2 tps (taps per second) seems to be best on mine.
Tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap! Hurray!
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Two solid taps within a second good for me
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Two solid taps within a second good for me
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Great find!!! Attempted same speed to put in "sleep" mode though in this scenario the quicker succession works better.
Can't say that I love to many things aside from family, my girl, and my corvette..... Today I got my Zu and I can add it to the list. This phablet is phenomenal. There really isn't a better word to describe it. I've had all the best phones ever made and this one puts all of them to shame. Sure the camera and speaker aren't anything special but this screen and smooth performance helps you forgive that very quickly. Anyone on the fence about getting one get off that fence and scoop one up. You won't regret it.
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Can't say that I love to many things aside from family, my girl, and my corvette..... Today I got my Zu and I can add it to the list. This phablet is phenomenal. There really isn't a better word to describe it. I've had all the best phones ever made and this one puts all of them to shame. Sure the camera and speaker aren't anything special but this screen and smooth performance helps you forgive that very quickly. Anyone on the fence about getting one get off that fence and scoop one up. You won't regret it.
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Welcome to the our exclusive club
It's is a great bit of kit
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You can take away my nexus 5 or my iPhone 5s but you can't take away my z ultra oh no.
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Can't say that I love to many things aside from family, my girl, and my corvette..... Today I got my Zu and I can add it to the list. This phablet is phenomenal. There really isn't a better word to describe it. I've had all the best phones ever made and this one puts all of them to shame. Sure the camera and speaker aren't anything special but this screen and smooth performance helps you forgive that very quickly. Anyone on the fence about getting one get off that fence and scoop one up. You won't regret it.
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It's indeed amazing :good:
Yeah, I usually take my Nexus 4 to work with me, since I'm too busy to actually use my phone at work and so it would be pointless to carry around the XZU, so I frequently have 3-4 day stretches in which I don't use the XZU. Whenever I switch back for school or off days, it's kind of like turning it on for the first time again. The change is so nice.
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Can't say that I love to many things aside from family, my girl, and my corvette..... Today I got my Zu and I can add it to the list. This phablet is phenomenal. There really isn't a better word to describe it. I've had all the best phones ever made and this one puts all of them to shame. Sure the camera and speaker aren't anything special but this screen and smooth performance helps you forgive that very quickly. Anyone on the fence about getting one get off that fence and scoop one up. You won't regret it.
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Welcome dude, that's pretty much exactly how I feel about this phone, it ticks all the boxes for me, camera and speaker mean sod all to me, everything else is top notch and unlike any other.
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Congrats. I plan on getting the Z Ultra later this month along with the Sony power case. It'll be replacing my ancient Xperia x10a, and while it will be monsterous in my shirt pocket, it will be glorious to use.
I'll also be picking up a new VAIO Flip 13" model to replace my old Sony Tablet S. Between that and the Z Ultra, my mobile experience should be amazing!
The Z1 got the "Smartphone of the year" award and the Tablet Z got "Tablet of the year" award in Norway yesterday, so Sony is doing something right!
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After using it for 3 days, i can say that i have my money well spent.
Pros:
1. Dat screeeeeenn..
2. Wifi range is superb, can go to second floor (where the wifi is on the first) whereas with my previous devices they can't detect it.
3. With its large body, surprising that it still fits into my chest pocket
4. Battery Life is good, even though not as strong as my previous razr maxx but that is expected
5. Can't wait to take a break with KitKat!
Cons:
1. Camera overprocessing.
2. No easy root method for now.. but i have migrated from Titanium Backup into Helium app so no biggie.. Only no mod for me now
O yeah i have some tips for battery life:
1. Don't install google aosp camera with gallery. It will take media scanning twice and preventing Stamina Mode to work
2. Turn off Google+ auto backup, or only allow it to upload while charging
3. Better to full drain the phone once and then charge it while it's off. But after that, please trickle charge it before it reach 50%
4. Don't use the phone while charging. Better to disconnect and then continue after you're done.
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This phone is amazing. Just like many of you, I have used a lot of flagship androids - but this baby is special. Phenomenal display, smooth performance, no more messing around with pinch zoom and much less scrolling. Camera could have been better, but you'll get over it in no time. I'll eat my pride and share my darkest secret - I don't finally miss my 'buttery smooth' iphone 3G from 2008
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4. Don't use the phone while charging. Better to disconnect and then continue after you're done.
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Guilty!
using it while charging is bad?
velvetmxo said:
using it while charging is bad?
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No.
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velvetmxo said:
using it while charging is bad?
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It's not as bad as you think but it is better to not do so. Because if you use it while charging, the high temperature will degrade battery faster. So unless you know that your usage is low and not heavy, better to disconnect it and charge again after the device is cool again.
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BatteryUniversity says so. It's like running while eating, or fueling your car while you're racing. Not applicable for jet fighter unfortunately lol but you got the idea.. but to some extent, i agree that light usage will not cause harm into your battery (much).
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BatteryUniversity says so. It's like running while eating, or fueling your car while you're racing. Not applicable for jet fighter unfortunately lol but you got the idea.. but to some extent, i agree that light usage will not cause harm into your battery (much).
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He asked if it's BAD to use the phone when it's charging, and let's be honest, it's not like you'll kill your battery within a week if you do it. Are you playing Vice City for 5 hours while charging? THAT might be bad in the long run. Checking the weather and FB a couple of times every hour? Not gonna matter.
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He asked if it's BAD to use the phone when it's charging, and let's be honest, it's not like you'll kill your battery within a week if you do it. Are you playing Vice City for 5 hours while charging? THAT might be bad in the long run. Checking the weather and FB a couple of times every hour? Not gonna matter.
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Yeah that's what i meant
jutley said:
You can take away my nexus 5 or my iPhone 5s but you can't take away my z ultra oh no.
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how the hell do you have a need for 3 cell phones?
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Sure the camera and speaker aren't anything special but this screen and smooth performance helps you forgive that very quickly. Sent from my C6806 using xda app-developers app
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Actually, there is a simple fix to improve and increase speaker volume.
I use the XZ1 Volume boost, it works wonders.
- Increased internal - external speaker
- Increased headphone volume
- Increased volume call speaker
Link - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2476498
Ps. You need to be rooted. Simply use CWM to flash the mod. Simple.