HTC Sensation Owners' Thread #SensatioNZ

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Reply # 490352 6-Jul-2011 23:29
A friend of mine ran a testing program called Quadrant on his SGS2 and got me to run the same on my Sensation, his result was over 3000 and mine was only 1900-something. Have any of you testers (and NZTechFreak) seen this program and do you rate what it tests as fair?

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Reply # 490354 6-Jul-2011 23:34
scoobydoo: A friend of mine ran a testing program called Quadrant on his SGS2 and got me to run the same on my Sensation, his result was over 3000 and mine was only 1900-something. Have any of you testers (and NZTechFreak) seen this program and do you rate what it tests as fair? Quadrant is not a good benchmark these days. Get CF Bench instead - it's created by Chainfire from XDA forums. Current Devices: Samsung Galaxy S3 Old Devices: SGS I9000, HTC Sensation, SGSII I9100, Asus Transformer Associate Editor-in-Chief for AndroidNZ.net TelecomTech is a sponsored blog reviewing the latest in communications technology. All comments are my own opinion, and not that of my employer unless explicitly stated.

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Reply # 490355 6-Jul-2011 23:38
lokhor: scoobydoo: A friend of mine ran a testing program called Quadrant on his SGS2 and got me to run the same on my Sensation, his result was over 3000 and mine was only 1900-something. Have any of you testers (and NZTechFreak) seen this program and do you rate what it tests as fair? Quadrant is not a good benchmark these days. Get CF Bench instead - it's created by Chainfire from XDA forums. +1 for CF Bench: https://market.android.com/details?id=eu.chainfire.cfbench You'll see Quadrant results quoted a lot, but there are now better options. Most of the current benchmarks don't support dual core processors, and in the case of Quadrant can give you wildly differing results. Some roms even support scripts to cheat benchmarking apps.

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Reply # 490359 6-Jul-2011 23:40
scoobydoo: A friend of mine ran a testing program called Quadrant on his SGS2 and got me to run the same on my Sensation, his result was over 3000 and mine was only 1900-something. Have any of you testers (and NZTechFreak) seen this program and do you rate what it tests as fair? Agree, Quadrant is not much good. Check my post at the Clove Blog, I do lots of benchmarks there, and more importantly talk about actual use as opposed synthetic benchmarks. I see a few people are asking me questions that I've covered at the blog, so here is link in case people were unaware: http://blog.clove.co.uk/author/murrayatclove/ Twitter: @nztechfreak Blogs: AndroidNZ.net

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Reply # 490367 6-Jul-2011 23:50
Talking about blogs, I'm preparing the Geekzone blog that will host the test drivers and their posts about the HTC Sensation. Stay tuned - it should go live when the handsets hit the shelves. Mauricio Freitas (Geekzone Admin, Devil's Advocate, my blog, technology disclosure, my tweets, Web Performance Optimization) Geekzone Price comparison \| Amazon Kindle order page \| How to get the best out of Geekzone \| New Zealand IT Jobs \| Geekzone News \| Jinglebugs

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Reply # 490373 7-Jul-2011 00:01
freitasm: Talking about blogs, I'm preparing the Geekzone blog that will host the test drivers and their posts about the HTC Sensation. Stay tuned - it should go live when the handsets hit the shelves. Nice! Look forward to it! Twitter: @nztechfreak Blogs: AndroidNZ.net

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Reply # 490376 7-Jul-2011 00:14
Linuxluver: Foo: So, what do you guys think? I think it's up to you. :-) Thanks, I am thinking that too ;-) At least we're all having fun!

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Reply # 490379 7-Jul-2011 01:11
Just watched your Video comparison of the HTC Sensation + SGS2. Im no longer interested in the Sensation after watching that. Lol

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Reply # 490380 7-Jul-2011 02:17
Cheers for the video playback comparison NZtechfreak. Very comprehensive and sways me to the SGSII. The Sensation would still be fine as far as HD files go. would be just a matter of encoding to 720p maximum mp4. This would Ensure smooth playback at all times on The Sensation - Telstra HTC Touch Pro2 - Energy ROM WM6.5.5 20 Oct/Cyanogen Mod Froyo 2.2 - R.I.P - AT&T Galaxy S Captivate 16GB on XT (now with brother) - Samsung Galaxy S2 on XT- Runs ICS 4.0.3 Resurrection Remix 9.2 - Business Hours - Work In The Electricity Industry, After Hours - DJ/Turntablist - Will Scratch Vinyl For Free' - What's next??? S3?

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Reply # 490416 7-Jul-2011 09:10
Having a gs2 and finding playing videos a bit dark I got the sensation. Build quality is sub par to my desire HD. Played 2 videos on sensation and gs2 and on sensation down to yellow zone on battery and 53% on the gs2. Not sure if there is a setting I need to change on sensation, but when I move the sensation it switches off. On my old desire hd the sense ui was nice and smooth and yet on the sensation it is jerky. I liked the desirehd and thought I would the sensation but so far it is not a nice experience. HTPC AMD A4-5300 cpu, Gigabyte ga2fa75m-d3h motherboard, , 4GB DDR3 ram, onboard graphics. Hauppuage HVR 3300 tuner, Antec 2480B case, Windows 7 home premium 64 bit using media center

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Reply # 490419 7-Jul-2011 09:18
Gilco2: Having a gs2 and finding playing videos a bit dark I got the sensation. Build quality is sub par to my desire HD. Played 2 videos on sensation and gs2 and on sensation down to yellow zone on battery and 53% on the gs2. Not sure if there is a setting I need to change on sensation, but when I move the sensation it switches off. On my old desire hd the sense ui was nice and smooth and yet on the sensation it is jerky. I liked the desirehd and thought I would the sensation but so far it is not a nice experience. Sounds like your Sensation is faulty. Send it back. Galaxy S has gone to its new owner. HTC Sensation running Jelly Bean 4.1.1, alpha AOSP ROM, on Telecom XT. Rough around the edges but showing much potential considering it's pre-beta. My daily driver now.

NzBeagle

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Reply # 490431 7-Jul-2011 09:30
ArtooDetoo: Gilco2: Having a gs2 and finding playing videos a bit dark I got the sensation. Build quality is sub par to my desire HD. Played 2 videos on sensation and gs2 and on sensation down to yellow zone on battery and 53% on the gs2. Not sure if there is a setting I need to change on sensation, but when I move the sensation it switches off. On my old desire hd the sense ui was nice and smooth and yet on the sensation it is jerky. I liked the desirehd and thought I would the sensation but so far it is not a nice experience. Sounds like your Sensation is faulty. Send it back. +1 Had mine for over a week and while not a sold on sense yet, i've not found it jerky at all. Battery has started to perform a little better now too.

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Reply # 490447 7-Jul-2011 09:59
NzBeagle: ArtooDetoo: Gilco2: Having a gs2 and finding playing videos a bit dark I got the sensation. Build quality is sub par to my desire HD. Played 2 videos on sensation and gs2 and on sensation down to yellow zone on battery and 53% on the gs2. Not sure if there is a setting I need to change on sensation, but when I move the sensation it switches off. On my old desire hd the sense ui was nice and smooth and yet on the sensation it is jerky. I liked the desirehd and thought I would the sensation but so far it is not a nice experience. Sounds like your Sensation is faulty. Send it back. +1 Had mine for over a week and while not a sold on sense yet, i've not found it jerky at all. Battery has started to perform a little better now too. You appear to have very impressive battery life. Mine usually dies after around 2.5hrs of screen usage. I think Sense does have microlags, especially in scrolling lists but overall it is not laggy and most people wouldn't notice. Current Devices: Samsung Galaxy S3 Old Devices: SGS I9000, HTC Sensation, SGSII I9100, Asus Transformer Associate Editor-in-Chief for AndroidNZ.net TelecomTech is a sponsored blog reviewing the latest in communications technology. All comments are my own opinion, and not that of my employer unless explicitly stated.

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Reply # 490464 7-Jul-2011 10:26
This is now online at Telecom for sale $1099

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Reply # 490519 7-Jul-2011 11:53
And it's live! I've just posted the first entry on http://www.geekzone.co.nz/TelecomTech. More to come in the next few hours, days and weeks. Mauricio Freitas (Geekzone Admin, Devil's Advocate, my blog, technology disclosure, my tweets, Web Performance Optimization) Geekzone Price comparison \| Amazon Kindle order page \| How to get the best out of Geekzone \| New Zealand IT Jobs \| Geekzone News \| Jinglebugs

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