Galaxy S4
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stevoknevo

1,754 posts

216 months

Saturday 11th May 2013
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MissChief said:
Have just ordered a white one, also moving from an S2 (two days after my Jellybean upgrade!). It'll be here on Monday!

What's the best way of shifting my pictures, music, contacts etc from my full size sim onto the micro-sim? It's mainly spottily for music and I'm happy enough to download them all again as I'm sure it won't take long but contacts is the big thing.

Obvious option is to export to the SD card and then import from it. Figured I should look at my own phone first!

Edited by MissChief on Saturday 11th May 17:56


Edited by MissChief on Saturday 11th May 18:12
Back up your contacts to your Google account, when you log in on your new phone it'll give you the option to import your contacts. Photos, music etc then either back up to sd card or export to pc and import to phone.

Dave200

5,671 posts

246 months

Tuesday 21st May 2013
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Must say that three weeks in, I'm still very happy with my S4. Transition from an S2 was almost seamless via Google Accounts and Dropbox, and hardware has so far been absolutely faultless. NFC has been a revelation, although I'm still not necessarily sold on the practical applications until we get some sort of travel/payment/wallet apps.

Not so confident in the eye-tracking software though, as on the few occasions I've tried to get it working it seems incapable of recognising where I'm looking. Any other findings to agreement/contrary?

RockyBalboa

768 posts

187 months

Tuesday 21st May 2013
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What's the battery life and size like to deal with?

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

281 months

Tuesday 21st May 2013
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MissChief said:
just ordered a white one,


smile

MissChief

7,892 posts

194 months

Wednesday 22nd May 2013
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I've just ordered one that's not black?

rich1231

17,339 posts

286 months

Wednesday 22nd May 2013
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The chinese have the 9502 model which is also dual sim.
Anyone in the UK importing them ?


mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

281 months

Wednesday 22nd May 2013
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MissChief said:
I've just ordered one that's not black?


rofl

Dave200

5,671 posts

246 months

Wednesday 22nd May 2013
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RockyBalboa said:
What's the battery life and size like to deal with?
No complaints here. It's not noticeably bigger than the S3, and has the biggest battery on the market.

TobyLaRohne

5,789 posts

232 months

Wednesday 22nd May 2013
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Dave200 said:
No complaints here. It's not noticeably bigger than the S3, and has the biggest battery on the market.
I thought they were identically sized in width and length but the s4 is slimmer and lighter?

fatboy69

9,424 posts

213 months

Wednesday 22nd May 2013
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Can't afford the S4 although been offered a choice today between an S111 & an iphone4S on a contract upgrade with 3.

Not sure which one i should for - got to bear in mind that I bought an iPod last week & then proceeded to break my Nokia over the weekend hence the need for a new phone!!

Current phone not worth repairing so got to ge a new phone.

jayfrancis

439 posts

234 months

Wednesday 22nd May 2013
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I picked one up yesterday after Phones 4 U offered me £100 for my 2 year old HTC HD desire. Seemed silly not to!

It's taking a bit of getting used to after the HTC but I'm quite impressed so far.

Anyone know how to do screen shots? Not worked that out yet.

And can anyone recommend a decent dash mount? (nothing stick on)

mike_knott

344 posts

250 months

Thursday 23rd May 2013
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jayfrancis said:
Anyone know how to do screen shots? Not worked that out yet.
Hold the power and select buttons.

Mike...

jayfrancis

439 posts

234 months

Thursday 23rd May 2013
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mike_knott said:
jayfrancis said:
Anyone know how to do screen shots? Not worked that out yet.
Hold the power and select buttons.

Mike...
Thanks Mike.

robsa

2,458 posts

210 months

Thursday 23rd May 2013
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With the S3 you could swipe the side of your hand from left to right across your screen to take a screen grab. You must be able to do that on the S4 too? (you may have to activate it in settings?)

http://androidfact.com/how-to-screenshot-on-galaxy...

Bungleaio

6,570 posts

228 months

Friday 24th May 2013
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Yes you can still swipe your hand across the screen to grab it.

jayfrancis

439 posts

234 months

Saturday 25th May 2013
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I can't find an FM radio on mine. Does it have one?

CatJ

9,586 posts

269 months

Sunday 26th May 2013
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Giving some serious thought to buying an S4. I currently have a HTC One X which I've had for 12 months, during which time I am on my 3rd handset.

I have also thought about the new HTC One, but I'm just not sure about one.

MrAndyW

538 posts

174 months

Tuesday 28th May 2013
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Had mine for a couple of weeks now.Just about got it sorted out.
The only thing I can't sort is the length of ringtone before it goes to voicemail.
Other websites,mainly U.S. seem to say its set by the provider,anybody know how to adjust?
Thanks Andy

ZesPak

26,016 posts

222 months

Tuesday 28th May 2013
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MrAndyW said:
The only thing I can't sort is the length of ringtone before it goes to voicemail.
Other websites,mainly U.S. seem to say its set by the provider,anybody know how to adjust?
Thanks Andy
Deffo provider setting. With a lot of providers this is a fixed value.
On most you can't select the length, but have two options:

  1. ~20 sec ring, then voicemail
  2. ~50 sec ring, no voicemail

MrAndyW

538 posts

174 months

Tuesday 28th May 2013
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Thanks, I thought that what it would be, I'm sure mine doesn't ring for 20 secs though, will test and see, Andy