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Serious S21 Camera Lag

sparrowed — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 00:15:39 +0800

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJhQEU2_ZQc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrohevXve94

There were no explanations. Apart from the fact that the phone was badly optimized.

Some symptoms of this camera lag.
- whole UI unusable for 2-8s depending on situation and the heat on your phone, upon taking a picture.
- you will encounter a delayed 2-5s sometimes before a picture was really taken.

You won't see this issue, if :
- anecdotal experience on online community; it happens to 10-20% of the S21 owners, both Exynos and SD888
- your phone is new, you wouldn't see issue like this.
- more files and apps installed on your phone. I have tried with the absolute basics; whatsapp and Slack, still it happens.

Service Center will not entertain your request, went there few times and what they would do was "oh, your phone is fine, no issues whatsoever" (after they reflashed the OS and reset everything).

I am selling this phone at a loss, 2nd hand.

Water Filter Advice

sparrowed — Sun, 18 Nov 2018 13:39:46 +0800

Anyone has experience getting and using filters that you could find in online stores like Lazada; https://www.lazada.com.my/products/water-ma...Fi9Z8Y&search=1

Like what's the water quality after the filtration, quality of the filtration tank ... etc

Bad Experience with Avenue Concept Store

sparrowed — Sat, 03 Nov 2018 13:13:14 +0800

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Avenue+Co...3;4d101.7754769

So this furniture is active on facebook for ads, i am one of the many victims fall in their trap.

Their furniture is cheap, no doubt. In fact, the cheapest the whole malaysia, that they could guarantee.

I bought a sofa from them, it was at least 20-30% cheaper than what you can find elsewhere.

while still within the warranty period, my sofa broke. I called them, they answered my call and once you mentioned about "warranty claiming", they would ask you to produce the proof of purchase via whatsapp, and you will never hear from them anymore.

Just sharing this for your information, this is a furniture shop to avoid. https://www.facebook.com/perabotACS/

Help on Lawyer Fee (Financial)

sparrowed — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 00:06:41 +0800

SPA Agreement - 4530
Entry & withdrawal of Private Caveat - 350
Filing of CKHT Form 2A (1 person) - 300
SST - 6% - 310.80

sub total - 5,490
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Photostating and printing - 100
Telephone/postage/fax - 100
Transport - 150
SD/Bankruptcy/Winding Up search - 60
Registration fee on MOT - 100
Registration Fee on Entry & Withdrawal of PC - 420
Affirmation of Statutory Declaration on PC - 30
Land search & Caveat search fee - 90
Misc Fee - 100
SST - 6% - 69

Subtotal - 1,219
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Stamping of SPA - 40
Stamp Duty on MOT - 12,900
Subtotal - 12,940

TOTAL = 19,649

Property price 600k, Is this reasonable?

Anyone has review about Acer R271?

sparrowed — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 01:55:40 +0800

http://www.acer.com/ac/en/MY/content/model/UM.HR1SM.001

I'm looking at this monitor to be my next purchase, anyone has experience with it? It's fairly new.

Is this Genuine for Windows 10?

sparrowed — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 11:50:57 +0800

i'm looking for an upgrade for my windows, and found this

http://www.lelong.com.my/windows-10-home-w...7-01-Sale-I.htm

But i kinda doubt, does people like him just use a keygen to sell?

Anyone have idea about this? And how you know if it's genuine from him before buying?

Thanks.

What to buy for someone leaving the country?

sparrowed — Thu, 28 May 2015 22:44:25 +0800

She's an asian american and she's leaving Malaysia soon forever. I want to buy her something, what is best to buy in this respect? she's a love interest but not a possible love interest.

Trouble with PSU warranty claim from Corsair

sparrowed — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 21:05:54 +0800

Anybody with experience of claiming warranty with Cudo Tech?

Bought the AX psu few years back and thought of it having good warranty, but turns out to be not.

My AX650 is obsolete, thus Cudo couldnt replace a new one for me. Their feedback to me was them giving me two options; replace with lower end product-RM series OR top up a certain amount to get the AX PSU.

How you guys manage to deal with them for warranty like this? Talked to this person dealing with my case and she is trained to counter with many excuses, even using iPhone5 to iPhone6 as an analogy to convince me to take either option.

If I have to fork out cash or get an inferior product for a claim, that's not a warranty claim as I see.

Does tempered glass really helps?

sparrowed — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 11:24:25 +0800

Any real-life experience on tempered glass? i mean dropping on the floor accidentally; front and corner impact? Im thinking to get one but without a phone casing, as i think most phone casing is pretty ugly and doesnt help much.

Anyone have experience with DialogHub?

sparrowed — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 01:19:36 +0800

How's their warranty and after sales service?

http://www.lelong.com.my/merchant/DialogHub.htm

Anyone have experience with DialogHub?

sparrowed — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 01:19:12 +0800

How's their warranty and after sales service?

http://www.lelong.com.my/merchant/DialogHub.htm

Is Motorola gonna release Moto X 2014 here?

sparrowed — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 00:42:07 +0800

This is the best phone of 2014, before the upcoming nexus slays it. will moto malaysia release it here?

Does having light bleeding qualified for warranty?

sparrowed — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 12:05:21 +0800

having ligth bleed as shown in the attachment, is this normal for IPS?

Does having light bleeding qualified for warranty?

sparrowed — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 01:14:56 +0800

I just bought Asus vx239h ips monitor, I noticed the lower left corner has serious light bleed, is that a defect? Or it is normal for ips to behave like this?

Table design with locations and tags

sparrowed — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 12:05:27 +0800

i have 3 tables:

places - it has foreign key to locationId in location table, and tagId in tag table
location - contains latitude and longtitude and address
tag - contains tagId and info.
tag_places - intermediate table of places and tag table to store the multiple tags the place has.

to retrieve places with certain tags, the query become very complicated.

is there any better table design for this requirement?

LG G2 or LG G3?

sparrowed — Sat, 20 Sep 2014 03:54:18 +0800

Undecided between these 2. G3 is about RM350 more expensive than G2, and offers not much improvements over G2. I'm quite ok with G2. Im quite undecided still, would be happy to see the comments and advice here.

Android as Main Forum

sparrowed — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 03:32:49 +0800

Shouldn't Android topic be grouped in main forum now? The activities of Android dwarfed many of forums like arts and design as example. I have to navigate 3 levels just to get into this sub-forum everyday.

Funds for Startup

sparrowed — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 16:14:12 +0800

I'm in the midst of developing a prototype of a product of my idea, it consist of me and my friend. It's about 20% completed using the minimum viable product strategy.

The development is slow as we both are having a full time job. I would like to get funding to commit to full time as well as hire some to help out my project.

Question is, what sort of funds am i applicable to? or best adviced to take? I'd like to skip Cradle as it involve too much red tape and some reason that I don't find it compelling enough for me.

Thanks.

Homeplug/powerline achievable speed?

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 07:30:00 +0800

How much employer willing to pay?

sparrowed — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 10:57:43 +0800

I’m in a scenario where I’m paid xxxx amount and market rate as stated statistically(job street, Kelly IT, and some simple survey in FB group in the same field as i am) with my job experience+skills set that i should be paid at yyyy amount, which is 40-60% of my current pay.

How to convince my future employer that I’m worth that amount when the employers definitely afford(as they have stated in their ad) but only willing to pay 20% max over my current pay?