Help me to NOT HATE my Galaxy S6
So I "upgraded" from an iPhone 5s to a Galaxy S6 yesterday.
I was encouraged by the fact that I had to pick up a Galaxy S5 last week to test our companies app on, and thought it was a pretty nice device. The major android selling point for me was being able to stream PC games straight to my phone, as well as PS4 remote play (using XDA sideloaded app).
With the S6 being newer and more powerful than the S5, I figured it would be great. I almost picked up the iPhone 6, but buying tech which is only a couple months from being upgraded seemed like a poor decision.
But long story short, I'm incredibly disappointed in it. I put Nova Launcher on it immediately, and then imported all of my data from my iPhone 5s using Smart Switch (except apps, which I wanted to install manually).
I have 40gb of photos and videos on my iPhone 5s, and Smart Switch managed to import all of them - Except in a really strange order. Some are okay, some are not. I assume this is because the pnes which are time stamped are in the right spot, but the ones which aren't (no idea why they wouldn't be) are just scattered. This is incredibly frustrating. The gallery app (or google photos) is also laggy as hell (I'm not using Google photos cloud backup), and simply scrolling through makes the phone heat up to ridiculous levels. In normal (non gallery) use, the phone heat is fine.
Browsing on either the stock browser, or Chrome (with the trick which increases Chromes allowed ram usage to 512) is choppy and uncomfortable. I mean, I could deal with it, it just seems like a step back from my iPhone 5s.
The most annoying part is that, here in Australia, our carriers (Telstra, in particular) don't allow you to return the phone for an exchange.
I feel like I'm stuck with a really average phone with a beautiful screen and a decent camera. If anyone can help, especially with sorting the photo's out, I would be very grateful? Even if there's a way for me to copy them all to my PC, then manually put them in order myself. I'd like my videos mixed amongst my photos as well. For instance, on my recent trip to Fiji, I had one video every 20 or so photos. On my galaxy, the videos are right at the beginning of my gallery, and photos come after.
It's just frustrating.
It seems that, if you have always used iOS, you should just stick with iOS. And visa versa.
(Trust me, I'm no Apple fanboy. It's just this album problem is a bit of a deal breaker for me. I don't mind with the browser issues, I'm sure I can download something that works better than the stock / Chrome browers).
So I "upgraded" from an iPhone 5s to a Galaxy S6 yesterday.
I was encouraged by the fact that I had to pick up a Galaxy S5 last week to test our companies app on, and thought it was a pretty nice device. The major android selling point for me was being able to stream PC games straight to my phone, as well as PS4 remote play (using XDA sideloaded app).
With the S6 being newer and more powerful than the S5, I figured it would be great. I almost picked up the iPhone 6, but buying tech which is only a couple months from being upgraded seemed like a poor decision.
But long story short, I'm incredibly disappointed in it. I put Nova Launcher on it immediately, and then imported all of my data from my iPhone 5s using Smart Switch (except apps, which I wanted to install manually).
I have 40gb of photos and videos on my iPhone 5s, and Smart Switch managed to import all of them - Except in a really strange order. Some are okay, some are not. I assume this is because the pnes which are time stamped are in the right spot, but the ones which aren't (no idea why they wouldn't be) are just scattered. This is incredibly frustrating. The gallery app (or google photos) is also laggy as hell (I'm not using Google photos cloud backup), and simply scrolling through makes the phone heat up to ridiculous levels. In normal (non gallery) use, the phone heat is fine.
Browsing on either the stock browser, or Chrome (with the trick which increases Chromes allowed ram usage to 512) is choppy and uncomfortable. I mean, I could deal with it, it just seems like a step back from my iPhone 5s.
The most annoying part is that, here in Australia, our carriers (Telstra, in particular) don't allow you to return the phone for an exchange.
I feel like I'm stuck with a really average phone with a beautiful screen and a decent camera. If anyone can help, especially with sorting the photo's out, I would be very grateful? Even if there's a way for me to copy them all to my PC, then manually put them in order myself. I'd like my videos mixed amongst my photos as well. For instance, on my recent trip to Fiji, I had one video every 20 or so photos. On my galaxy, the videos are right at the beginning of my gallery, and photos come after.
It's just frustrating.
It seems that, if you have always used iOS, you should just stick with iOS. And visa versa.
(Trust me, I'm no Apple fanboy. It's just this album problem is a bit of a deal breaker for me. I don't mind with the browser issues, I'm sure I can download something that works better than the stock / Chrome browers).
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