Verizon killed off download booster.

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bobo2xtreme

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I hope someone will be able to port it to our s5's soon after it comes out. Was a main feature I was looking forward to.

http://www.droid-life.com/2014/04/1...-kill-off-galaxy-s5-download-booster-feature/

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Crooke356

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• Apr 10, 2014

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Yea, this was disappointing. Like my M8 without the power saving modes.. All this US carrier bull. At least with the M8 we have S-off already and have added the features back.. While it'd be awesome, I just don't see the exploits for the S5 coming as fast... But I didn't expect it to happen to the M8 that fast either.

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bobo2xtreme

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Crooke356 said:

Yea, this was disappointing. Like my M8 without the power saving modes.. All this US carrier bull. At least with the M8 we have S-off already and have added the features back.. While it'd be awesome, I just don't see the exploits for the S5 coming as fast... But I didn't expect it to happen to the M8 that fast either.

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You like the m8 so far?

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jayochs

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• Apr 11, 2014

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eh, just like with blocking mode on previous S devices, once we have root, we'll get it back. no biggie.

 

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mrbracht

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bobo2xtreme said:

You like the m8 so far?

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I'll step in. The m8 is the best phone I have ever owned. Period. . But I am buying the s5 tomorrow too. We will see

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Crooke356

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• Apr 11, 2014

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bobo2xtreme said:

You like the m8 so far?

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What mrbracht said. I even love Sense 6 and I'm a huge AOSP guy. Completely surprised. But in a few hours, that other flagship will be here.

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Kaz the Minotaur

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Wouldn't Verizon stand to potentially make more money with the download booster? If people are using data more when downloading they would be more apt go over their data limit?

 

TechSavvy2

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Kaz the Minotaur said:

Wouldn't Verizon stand to potentially make more money with the download booster? If people are using data more when downloading they would be more apt go over their data limit?

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You're assuming that people who download faster are gonna download more stuff....not necessarily true....

And if it's not true, then all download booster is doing is taking up extra unnecessary bandwidth

 

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bobo2xtreme

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Having the ability to go faster is all I wanted. I hate waiting for a download to finish just on my wifi because it is faster and like roms are usually more than 300 mb per update. If people didn't download more stuff it would still probably make some people upgrade another 2gb so they don't go over and take advantage of the download booster. That is what I would do. Another 10 a month for more data and take advantage of the faster speeds.

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Lodaserves

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I hope it will have the DL booster when it released.kinda boring for slow net users

 

bsweetness

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Lodaserves said:

I hope it will have the DL booster when it released.kinda boring for slow net users

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It doesn't have it, and it's not likely that it ever officially will.

 

fillyo

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I really don't care, I do have unlimited data and download speeds are fast enough, plus I have an AC router at home, I hit 120mbs on my S4 on wifi and expect the same on my S5.

 

Guadalupeohara

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• Apr 11, 2014

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fillyo said:

I really don't care, I do have unlimited data and download speeds are fast enough, plus I have an AC router at home, I hit 120mbs on my S4 on wifi and expect the same on my S5.

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I am not care about that. I think it's download speed will more fast

 

Lodaserves

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• Apr 14, 2014

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Yeah i think also download speed will be more faster. hmm

 

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onyx51

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Download Booster

There's another forum for the S5 that gives you a way using an alternate launcher to access download booster. The one thing stopping it once turned on is the ability to turn on the specific mobile network mode.

Nova launcher allows you to add shortcut then go to settings and find download booster. It's one of the selling points for the phone that I enjoy. I'm from a rural area so when I go home to visit I want to combine the connections when needed.