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I'm do for a upgrade. I have a Droid incredible now but i have been looking at the razr and the nexus. Only thing that concerns me is the internal battery for the razr. I love everything about the razr better than the prime but the internal battery. Of something goes wrong during rooting or flashing roms and the razr freezes how do u go about getting it to unfreeze if you can't pull the battery. Thanks. maybe question will help me make up my mind.
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If anything drastic happens, then you can remove the battery.. it is not a BIG activity.. the Kevlar back is held by 2 clips at the bottom and some sticky "something" at the top. Just lift from the bottom and you can open the back by fingernails itself..... inside it is the same battery....
But 99.9% of the times you would not be required to open it...(I opened due to my curiosity)...The phone doesn't freezes...it simply restarts ....
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If anything drastic happens, then you can remove the battery.. it is not a BIG activity.. the Kevlar back is held by 2 clips at the bottom and some sticky "something" at the top. Just lift from the bottom and you can open the back by fingernails itself..... inside it is the same battery....
But 99.9% of the times you would not be required to open it...(I opened due to my curiosity)...The phone doesn't freezes...it simply restarts ....
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How are you liking the razr. And thanks for the quick reply.
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You can't go wrong, I love my Razr and have had zero issues with it so far. I like the external SD slot,USB mass storage,build quality is superior,love how thin and light it is , and it's Android 4.0 upgradeable(should be coming sometime in Q1 of 2012).
It's a great device.
it is quite brilliant....head-turner most of the times....
Pros:
1. Looks
2. More Looks
3. Build quality(far far superior than any Android till date....)
4. Music quality, again top notch, but to discover them truly, need to get some really good pair....not that good with the stock headphones.... I am using it with AudioTechnica ANC-23
5. Extremism in terms of eye candy....no animation is gaudy enough and no transition can be more superfluous...
Cons:
1. Partially Android Gingerbread is letting it down. Dual core support is not really going though, but with ICS coming next year it can be fixed.
2. Random reboot problem. The phone simply reboots itself, whenever it thinks that you have done something awful, or it has done something wrong.... NOTE: It never freezes, it just reboots.... but got a new update this evening, did not have a reboot till now.....hopefully it is fixed...
dey.santanu2011 said:
it is quite brilliant....head-turner most of the times....
Pros:
1. Looks
2. More Looks
3. Build quality(far far superior than any Android till date....)
4. Music quality, again top notch, but to discover them truly, need to get some really good pair....not that good with the stock headphones.... I am using it with AudioTechnica ANC-23
5. Extremism in terms of eye candy....no animation is gaudy enough and no transition can be more superfluous...
Cons:
1. Partially Android Gingerbread is letting it down. Dual core support is not really going though, but with ICS coming next year it can be fixed.
2. Random reboot problem. The phone simply reboots itself, whenever it thinks that you have done something awful, or it has done something wrong.... NOTE: It never freezes, it just reboots.... but got a new update this evening, did not have a reboot till now.....hopefully it is fixed...
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That's good. Is yours rooted. Cause I will be definitely be rooting it if I get one. And I was comparing it to the nexus. And I see the nexus looses alot of signal. And personally I think the razr looks way better then the nexus. But the nexus will have a lil more development I suppose.
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You can't go wrong, I love my Razr and have had zero issues with it so far. I like the external SD slot,USB mass storage,build quality is superior,love how thin and light it is , and it's Android 4.0 upgradeable(should be coming sometime in Q1 of 2012).
It's a great device.
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Sweet thanks alot for the input. And yes I will agree I love the thinness of it and the looks of it.
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yes, mine is rooted and it is quite brilliant...
Signal reception is quite okay, definitely better than Samsung and HTC ones, but not that of Nokia...
Nexus and Razr are two completely different phones.. both are great..but personally I would choose the slim and sexy one over the other....
dey.santanu2011 said:
yes, mine is rooted and it is quite brilliant...
Signal reception is quite okay, definitely better than Samsung and HTC ones, but not that of Nokia...
Nexus and Razr are two completely different phones.. both are great..but personally I would choose the slim and sexy one over the other....
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I would have to agree. So if something goes wrong with rooting or flashing. And the phone starts resetting how do u stop it. Lol.
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snapper915 said:
I would have to agree. So if something goes wrong with rooting or flashing. And the phone starts resetting how do u stop it. Lol.
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Vandalise the back cover of the phone and take out the battery....
Steps given above.....
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Vandalise the back cover of the phone and take out the battery....
Steps given above.....
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Haha. Gotcha. Thanks for your help. You have really helped me make my decision. Lol. It just my main concern was the battery but u solved that for me. :-D
And yes I am a huge fan of animations and screen to screen transitions. Lol. I have a app on my phone that can change transitions and things like that. Lol.
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The accessories are awesome as well. I have the HD Station and am loving it. The RAZR just feels like a more solid phone as well.
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The accessories are awesome as well. I have the HD Station and am loving it. The RAZR just feels like a more solid phone as well.
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Yes i will have to agree. I think the razr feels and looks more sexy than the nexus.
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Also is there a easy way to unroot the razr if need be and get back to stock and how difficult is it. Lol
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Never owned a Motorola, always HTC and the Nexus brand. The lack of sd card and the overall build quality of the recent Nexus just turns me off. The Razr is just one knock out piece of hardware and the specs aren't too shabby either. I thnk the Razr wth ICS is going to give it wings. I am picking up a Razr at full price. Coming from the rooted Thunderbolt will be a big change. The Dev support for the Thunderbolt has been unbelievable, will still keep my Thunderbolt but I want the Razr and all the accessories to go with it. The accessories are just fantastic. Calling Verizon and putting in my order.
Agree. I am still on the Droid incredible and i love it still. I also have never used a Motorola phone. So let me knw how u like it. :-D
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For those that have either one of the following symptoms but is not limited to these:
1) longing for ics/miui v4
2) unable to shake the feeling of flashing something no matter what device the ROM is built for
3) guilt of flashing a new ROM with bugs knowing that your old one was perfect, similar feelings that are associated with post relationships
4) hiding the addiction of xda and ROM flashing by allowing spouses, significant others think that you may be cheating rather than meshing around on your phone
This is to be a release or getaway, there's to be no judgment or community punishment...mods are not a part of this protection...sorry.
Come share your stories....you are not alone.
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First! Hm... maybe not the best thread to be first in...
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haha nice thread.... Lets just say i've been checking xda and others forums way too much since ics has been leaked. Really into these sense 4.0 roms and just waiting for some more stability.
Never knew this could become addictive until I found myself sneaking to check this specific forum while my fiancé is sleep beside me at 2am and then when confronted (yes I'm at the stage where I get confronted) about it, I lie and say it was a girl...jk..but I did lie though, still a shame.
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I am constantly checking these threads I need help. I've lost my mojo :/
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Flashing while driving, flashing while pooping, sneak flashing after promising not to, thinking about flashing while "listening" to my wife, starting a download prior to an appointment so I could flash immediately after, waking up from a dead sleep with an idea about flashing then getting up to do it then hiding the phone when my wife wakes up, thinking "this rom is perfect, I'll never flash again", then flashing something two minutes later, etc... Yeah I been there man.
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Flashing while driving, flashing while pooping, sneak flashing after promising not to, thinking about flashing while "listening" to my wife, starting a download prior to an appointment so I could flash immediately after, waking up from a dead sleep with an idea about flashing then getting up to do it then hiding the phone when my wife wakes up, thinking "this rom is perfect, I'll never flash again", then flashing something two minutes later, etc... Yeah I been there man.
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Honestly some of my best flashing is while pooping, I wipe my ass and my phone at the same time. I hide the phone too, waiting until I hear the true sound of sleep and by then my 100 mb ROM is complete.
Is it just me or does anyone else hate the initial flashing of a miui ROM? There's no muffling that amplified ass bout audio and I always forget about it at 12am during the work week.
I may move this to the Android general, if I can.
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Hi.. My name is Gene.. And I'm an Android Addict.. I've been using Android in various forms since the G1.. And I've spent thousands of dollars going through nearly 50 phones and tablets in the last 3 years. My girlfriend doesn't quite understand the obsession.. And I'll be honest.. I don't understand it myself.. I just start thinking about shiny new designs.. Quad Core processors built on new architecture with die shrinkage.. Better camera hardware matching point and shoots matched with glorious software... And dozens of ROMS and kernels to sort through to find the perfect combination for my phone and I.. I get this itch... And my eye starts twitching... And.. And..... GOD WHERES MY PHONE! I DONT CARE IF THE NEW ALPHA OF MIUI DOESNT EVEN BOOT I JUST NEED TO FLASH IT!!!
*grabs EVO and runs*
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I'm always promising myself that I won't flash a new rom. That today is the day when I stop.... 2 seconds later flashing a new rom. It's gotten to the point where I had to make a new folder on sd card just to save the zips I flash so I don't have to redownload
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I'm always promising myself that I won't flash a new rom. That today is the day when I stop.... 2 seconds later flashing a new rom. It's gotten to the point where I had to make a new folder on sd card just to save the zips I flash so I don't have to redownload
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For a minute I thought that was normal, my sd card would fill up in a matter of minutes or hours depending on whether or not I was on 3g or wifi. I got better with my flashing as I told myself that aosp and miui are the only roms to flash...until sense 3.6 & 4.0 came out, along with 45 different ics aosp roms and now I'm sitting here licking my lips for some miui v4
Gene,
I know to a degree what you mean I have an Acer that works and I found a great combo and now it feels a little too complicated to upgrade so now I'm thinking about trading that sucker in for a nook tablet/color or a kindle fire...anything lighter and good development 7 or 10 inch tablet. I have no good reason a to why I'm trying to do this either.
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For a minute I thought that was normal, my sd card would fill up in a matter of minutes or hours depending on whether or not I was on 3g or wifi. I got better with my flashing as I told myself that aosp and miui are the only roms to flash...until sense 3.6 & 4.0 came out, along with 45 different ics aosp roms and now I'm sitting here licking my lips for some miui v4
Gene,
I know to a degree what you mean I have an Acer that works and I found a great combo and now it feels a little too complicated to upgrade so now I'm thinking about trading that sucker in for a nook tablet/color or a kindle fire...anything lighter and good development 7 or 10 inch tablet. I have no good reason a to why I'm trying to do this either.
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To be honest the best tablet I ever owned was the touchpad. And that was before CM9 dropped for it lol. WebOS was awesome on the touchpad. Then CM9 dropped and suddenly I had the best of both worlds haha
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Gene_Bailey said:
To be honest the best tablet I ever owned was the touchpad. And that was before CM9 dropped for it lol. WebOS was awesome on the touchpad. Then CM9 dropped and suddenly I had the best of both worlds haha
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But I've got my eye on the Nexus Tablet rumored for summer. If the price range of around 250 to 300 holds true and it does have worthy specs I'm all over that.
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But I've got my eye on the Nexus Tablet rumored for summer. If the price range of around 250 to 300 holds true and it does have worthy specs I'm all over that.
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Yea due to recent budget cut backs, if it's not cheap and easy it's not coming into this house. I won't lie the Acer a500 gives me the best workout when trying to hold it
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I am picking up a Note tonight to see if 5.3 inches is practical for me or not. I planned on taking it home and immediately putting CM10 or some other AOSP rom on it. I realized though that if I do that, I would probably disable all the stylus features of the phone. Other than not having stylus support, what other things will I be missing out on by flashing away from touchwiz? Thanks in advance.
My stylus works fine, it doesn't have any of the special functions. Other than that and some fun bluetooth issues (which seems to vary from user to user) and a couple reboots now and then. The cm10 roms are great
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So what touchwiz apps actually take full advantage of the stylus, maybe I can import them and make them work on AOSP. Also does the note do things such as picture and picture and all that? I watched the video for the note2 and wondered if the note1 had all those features.
I never had a problem using my Note's stylus with apps like Draw(er) and SBMX for the roughly ten to twelve days I was trying out three dufferent CM10 nightlies. Nice as S Memo is, I didn't miss it and I don't think I will when I go back to CM builds.
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I'm sure it's possible to augment those functions, but I'm no coder, I'm more of a hardware guy.
As for the picture and picture, I couldn't tell ya. I'm sure someone who's smarter than me can chime in.
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I guess my question is, do the current note1 Touchwiz builds have features such as picture and picture? Also I was seeing things such as adobe photo shop or some kind of video editing. I'm assuming since the stylus works we can still grab those apps and they will work fine with it.
The special spen features i.e. Snote and smemo require touchwiz. Having jelly bean is worth losing a few spen features all day everyday. Having run cm10 ROMs for a month or so, vanilla ICS feels dated.
Its not like the pen stops working all together. I find myself using it any time I tinker under the hood.
S-pen, S-memo... but there is a very nice alternative called GNote and it works pretty well. This new Padawan ROM is blazing fast and smooth not to mention at 350mb quite light for a non aosp ROM
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Is it possible to port iPhones statusbar?
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It´s possible to create a similar looking statusbar, but you should care of what you asking for The android community is like "What you bought a S3 and now want a IOS theme? Burn!"
What? You bought an S3 and now you want iPhone status bar?! Burn!
awsome but still dont make it
Hahahah not the theme just a statusbar... that turns into navy blue when going into an app an kinda transparnt and has little rounded corners
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:what::banghead:
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Sounds like the Apple Parasite has started to absorb and assimilate his mind and body
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Sounds like the Apple Parasite has started to absorb and assimilate his mind and body
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i prefer pears though
You'd rather be assimilated by a pear lol. Still, I can only think of the iPhone notifications app that pops messages and other alerts on the screen like an iPhone. Nothing that changes the statusbar comes to mind tho
I was looking for somewhat like that but i just installed centerclock and 75% transparent statusbar its better now
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theme app
I have seen some app (maybe go launcher?) that gives you the whole iphone layout. Maybe it was just the lock screen.
Go buy iPhone then
If not what the point you buy s3 or android phone
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Go buy iPhone then
If not what the point you buy s3 or android phone
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Point for the OP may have been that the S3 is a much cooler phone and more powerful also. Oh, and the whole screen is bigger thing also. And then there is the whole Android is great and is capable of being customized to the hill. And can even be made to mimic whole or in part IOS. Fact of the matter here is that we all here love different thesis/looks for our devices. And if some of you might not have guessed, IOS has a theme of its own. And, some in here like that theme. Do I no. But that does not matter. All that matters is that the OP gets to what they came for as well as every one else here. So, on that note, Yeah!
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Honestly there's features on iPhone that I think are fantastic - that said, I'm still an Android fanatic. I'm not sure though why everyone's giving the OP a hard time.
To answer the question though, it's possible, but highly unlikely since we'd be working with closed-sourced software. There's no way to port the iPhone's status bar without an enormous amount of work. That said, you can still theme the status bar to similar likings. If Rompnit got my post in the Morphology section, you'll find additional signal bar icons that are based off the iPhone's.
For an iPhone style you just have to flash a MIUI ROM and install a iPhone theme.
89.98% similar look
I love blondes but no one can stop me to have some fantasies with brunets ...
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You can try paranoid android. It changes color depending upon the app you launch
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Yeah.. Miui rom is as close as it gets to an iPhone.
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You mean that i should get an iPhone because i like the look of a statusbar?
And you other guys thanks for the tips but i was just looking for somewhat like statusbar
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Your thread is bad and you should feel bad.
Joke I have no idea how to accomplish this
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You should take a look at MIUI ROMs
Running my mind ragged whether I should get the S4, the HTC One or the Moto X (or Droid Maxxx) (I know I know, camera. I know.)
What I was wondering was, since the S4 is Super AMOLED, does it have the ability to incorporate the active display that the Moto X has or is Super AMOLED a totally different beast?
Ehh it can.. But it doesn't have the Motos low power chip to handle the notifications and pulse the screen, so any 3rd party app you install to do it, will kill your battery.
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Ehh it can.. But it doesn't have the Motos low power chip to handle the notifications and pulse the screen, so any 3rd party app you install to do it, will kill your battery.
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Now that you mentioned that, I remembered reading that somewhere else.
It's crazy that in this day and age we haven't yet a phone that can provide 3 things: 1)amazing build quality with loud calls 2) a great camera 3)extremely long battery life/battery saving processing
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Now that you mentioned that, I remembered reading that somewhere else.
It's crazy that in this day and age we haven't yet a phone that can provide 3 things: 1)amazing build quality with loud calls 2) a great camera 3)extremely long battery life/battery saving processing
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Agreed, I do like the s4 more than I figured I would tho, signal reception is just as good as the razr hd it replaced, (was worried as every sammy I had before had horrible reception), Battery life really isnt bad and I regularly get 24 hrs with normal use, the screen is absolutely beautiful, performance is great, and the camera just blows the razr hd's away. I miss being unlocked sometimes, but I thought id be returning this and ended up keeping it.
I live in a rear apartment. Reception I believe will always btw horrible bit o believe that build can decrease reception, rendering awful reception non-existent, so I think that may be my number one priority. I have two kids and I love the S3 camera... maybe I'll get the S4 and put a GE Rom on.
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I live in a rear apartment. Reception I believe will always btw horrible bit o believe that build can decrease reception, rendering awful reception non-existent, so I think that may be my number one priority. I have two kids and I love the S3 camera... maybe I'll get the S4 and put a GE Rom on.
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Check to make sure you get a non updated phone if you wanna do that, mine came pre updated so I couldn't do roms.
Good tip
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Good tip
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It hasn't mattered to me that much since usually when I get to flashing roms on a phone it's because the stock rom is god awful slow, but this phone is so fast it doesn't bother me. I can imagine a nice rom on this runs pretty sweet though.
I just hate hate hate touchwiz. Also.I can do without the gazillion extras they added.... I really don't need so many tricks for the camera. Just hood hardware and snapseed
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I just hate hate hate touchwiz. Also.I can do without the gazillion extras they added.... I really don't need so many tricks for the camera. Just hood hardware and snapseed
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I hear you, I dont use any of the extras with this phone, and nova went on before the end of the first day, already froze most of the TW stuff, I do like all the stuff the camera can do, but as long as the AOSP cam can take good pics Id be ok with that too, the TW cam does take some pretty nice pictures though Been quite impressed actually.
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I hear you, I dont use any of the extras with this phone, and nova went on before the end of the first day, already froze most of the TW stuff, I do like all the stuff the camera can do, but as long as the AOSP cam can take good pics Id be ok with that too, the TW cam does take some pretty nice pictures though Been quite impressed actually.
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I think the hardware is solid... so any software lumped on to pilot it will do well. I tend to like the uncluttered look and feel of the stock camera. I am going by today to check out the s4 again. If the X is really out one the 29th, it would give me one day to make a decision in order to take advantage of the $50 + $10 off coupons.
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I think the hardware is solid... so any software lumped on to pilot it will do well. I tend to like the uncluttered look and feel of the stock camera. I am going by today to check out the s4 again. If the X is really out one the 29th, it would give me one day to make a decision in order to take advantage of the $50 + $10 off coupons.
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Really don't think you can go wrong between the two, I had actually picked this up because I sold my Razr HD, and could not stand using the LG Ally backup phone I had any longer, knowing I had 14 days to decide I grabbed the S4, and its what im gonna keep. Good luck with whatever you choose!