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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #30 on: July 10, 2015, 02:09:34 PM »

You sure are whiney, Merv.   :P

I've got the GS4 and Galaxy Tab S.  The GS4 has been running problem-free for me for two years now with no signs of slowing down.  If it had longer battery life, I would be 100% content with it.   

I also hate Touchwiz, but Nova Launcher pretty much takes care of everything for me.  I have no issues with the Samsung interface after that.

I actually agree that the build quality of the GS6 is a bit overrated on the regular version.  For whatever reason, though, the edge version just feels sexy to me.  I know it's a gimmick, but I have no shame in liking gimmicks.

I also really prefer the buttons on the Galaxy line.  Physical buttons make me happy and I don't really care for the on-screen buttons of a lot of phones.

Still trying to decide between this and the LG G4.  The size of the G4 is a big turnoff to me.  I already hate carrying phones in my pocket as it is.  I wish there were some alternative other than being 50 years old and carrying a hip holster.  I also hate that it feels so light and flimsy.  I like heavy/paperweight phones.  But, it seems to do a lot of things right...the good manual settings on the camera, the expandable storage and replaceable battery (I like to carry a spare), etc.
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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #31 on: July 10, 2015, 03:25:31 PM »

Samsung: Let's take the best hardware and screen and surround it by unusable garbage design and load it with unusable garbage software.

Samsung needs someone else to do everything that isn't the screen and the processor.

my phone doesn't have the severe greenish tint or odd color. In fact, I took a colorimeter to it and got 6514k and on-the-dot srgb primaries (with a gentle green tilt). The fact that this is true makes it even worse because holy shit how bad does their QC have to be?! I've seen better and worse S6s, and that's even worse than if they were uniformly good or bad!
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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #32 on: July 10, 2015, 06:29:52 PM »

You sure are whiney, Merv.   :P

I've got the GS4 and Galaxy Tab S.  The GS4 has been running problem-free for me for two years now with no signs of slowing down.  If it had longer battery life, I would be 100% content with it.   

I also hate Touchwiz, but Nova Launcher pretty much takes care of everything for me.  I have no issues with the Samsung interface after that.

I actually agree that the build quality of the GS6 is a bit overrated on the regular version.  For whatever reason, though, the edge version just feels sexy to me.  I know it's a gimmick, but I have no shame in liking gimmicks.

I also really prefer the buttons on the Galaxy line.  Physical buttons make me happy and I don't really care for the on-screen buttons of a lot of phones.

Still trying to decide between this and the LG G4.  The size of the G4 is a big turnoff to me.  I already hate carrying phones in my pocket as it is.  I wish there were some alternative other than being 50 years old and carrying a hip holster.  I also hate that it feels so light and flimsy.  I like heavy/paperweight phones.  But, it seems to do a lot of things right...the good manual settings on the camera, the expandable storage and replaceable battery (I like to carry a spare), etc.


As someone that owns an S6, the only reason I own it is because the M9 sucked so horribly. I loved my M8 though :(
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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #33 on: July 10, 2015, 09:49:33 PM »


As someone that owns an S6, the only reason I own it is because the M9 sucked so horribly. I loved my M8 though :(
Yeah, I was really excited about the M9.  What a letdown. 

It's certainly got the kind of physical design that I can appreciate (from a weight/heft perspective).
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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #34 on: July 11, 2015, 06:27:35 PM »

Need more thermal throttling. Any way go do this on s6
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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #35 on: July 12, 2015, 04:04:31 AM »

Need more thermal throttling. Any way go do this on s6


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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #36 on: July 12, 2015, 04:53:42 AM »

Dammit, this Samsung is such a piece of shit. Does it really need to get as hot as a Zana Deux chassis for Clash of Clans?

C'mon Samsung apologists. Tell me what to do. The Nova launcher helped. You guys must have some ideas to make this POS perform like the premium smartphone it's supposed to be.


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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #37 on: July 12, 2015, 05:12:59 AM »

Dammit, this Samsung is such a piece of shit. Does it really need to get as hot as a Zana Deux chassis for Clash of Clans?

C'mon Samsung apologists. Tell me what to do. The Nova launcher helped. You guys must have some ideas to make this POS perform like the premium smartphone it's supposed to be.

I'm surprised it's running so hot. Most of the Snapdragon 810 based phones have to go into throttling hell in order to not melt themselves to death, but I would've assumed that the big.LITTLE Exynos Octa in there would've been better optimized since Samsung makes it.
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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #38 on: July 12, 2015, 06:11:04 AM »

Dammit, this Samsung is such a piece of shit. Does it really need to get as hot as a Zana Deux chassis for Clash of Clans?

C'mon Samsung apologists. Tell me what to do. The Nova launcher helped. You guys must have some ideas to make this POS perform like the premium smartphone it's supposed to be.




Not a Samsung apologist, maybe a case can help?

On a thin phone like the S6, the chassis don't have much thermal headroom. It doesn't take much to heat the phone up before you can melt butter with it.
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Re: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review (by someone who was forced to use it)
« Reply #39 on: July 12, 2015, 06:57:39 AM »

Most cases are insulators and would make it worse. The phone would likely go into reboot cycles. Adding more metal would only help till it heated up to normal temp and then function like there was no case. You'd need a properly designed heatsink to actually raidate enough via convection.

Try rigging an external peltier. :P
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