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Samsung Galaxy S III (new flagship Android phone from Samsung)
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Grover Cleveland
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JB update is rolling out as we speak for the
Galaxy S3.
Sprint
Jack Scofield
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What's better, SoundHound or Shazam? I downloaded Shazam for my iPhone years and never bothered looking into anything else, but everyone nowadays seems to use SoundHound. Is it better or something?
Yeah, that was what I was leading to. Android is terrible about notification settings and having them all over the place. iOS definitely gets that right.
jobber
Would let Tony Parker sleep with his wife
That happened to me too. This happened a day after I was able to transfer stuff with no problems. I still don't know what happened. The SD card isn't locked and it's recognized by my computer and the phone. It just says it's busy or has been disconnected.
BoboBrazil
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Nothing yet on Sprint. Talk about a soft launch. Did they just send this out to 1,000 people?
jobber
Would let Tony Parker sleep with his wife
It probably won't start until tomorrow.
It hasn't been anything uploaded to XDA.
The last leak was the final version anyway.
The Faceless Master
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yes, it's very likely. there was a leaked build a few days ago. iirc it was buggy though, but they are indeed working on it.
So how is the GS3 as an mp3 player? I heard some posts about some clicking noise that comes through the headphones? That sounds terrible...
Also I heard something about SD card speeds? Does the speed make a difference? Someone told me a slow speed can damage the phone in some way... also does using an SD card reduce battery life?
Thanks
Also I heard something about SD card speeds? Does the speed make a difference? Someone told me a slow speed can damage the phone in some way... also does using an SD card reduce battery life?
Thanks
Clicking noises someone else has to answer.
SD card speeds - speed does a difference if you're recording lots of video and has a habit of constantly moving files back and forth from SD to internal. It won't reduce your battery life, unless your doing some really intensive copying to/from the sd-card - but then it's really the cpu eating up battery, not the card itself.
BronsonLee
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Xda found the link off of Googles servers for Jelly Bean.. On it now. Does seem smoother, and Google Now seems useful.
Have you tried Kies (yeah, yeah, I know...) - it's usually available faster there.
I've only had mine a short while, but audio wise I haven't been able to fault it. With my old GS1 I used to get a faint hissing/background static like noise, but that hasn't been apparent with the GS3. However I haven't been able to test it extensively yet because I'm having issues with playback! It seems that after about 20-25 minutes the playback will just stop - no matter which app I'm using to play (music or podcast). I'm still in the process of testing it, but I'm pretty sure it has to do with the sdcard (64gb sdxc). Media playback is also draining the battery at a ridiculous rate :\
I'm a big MP3 listener and have not found fault with either the player or the earpods that come with the phone. Both sound just fine. Though I don't have a super expensive set of pods so maybe there will be pops there.
BFIB
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No issues with the sound quality, but I think my SD card is slowly dying.
Was at Best Buy last night checking out a few things, and walked by the GS3 they had on display from Sprint. With the pop up message that a system update is available. Come on, Sprint, roll out that JB goodness to my phone!
Was at Best Buy last night checking out a few things, and walked by the GS3 they had on display from Sprint. With the pop up message that a system update is available. Come on, Sprint, roll out that JB goodness to my phone!
BronsonLee
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If you don't want to wait for the OTA (could be a while), download it straight from Google (Xda has the link, as well as a few mirrors), put it on a microsd, power down, then go into recovery (hold power, volume up, and the home button). Apply update from external, go to file, bewm!
Can't wait to try this when I get home!
It's okay T-Mo brother, we'll be getting JB soon(tm).
Dead Prince
Banned
transferring zip now. let's see how this goes.
EDIT:
Installing now.
EDIT 2:
And Done.
Banjotanooki
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Since I just got and activated mine on Wednesday, does that mean I'll get it later than everyone else?
CrookedRain
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Phones are randomly chosen to get updated supposedly. You can update now if you want by downloading the update zip file from Google's servers.
BoboBrazil
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nevermind, fixed the issue
Updated to Jelly Bean. Not really a dramatic change. Not sure why everyone was craving it so badly
Updated to Jelly Bean. Not really a dramatic change. Not sure why everyone was craving it so badly
Ecto311
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Google now doesnt talk unless you ask it something that it needs too. Ask Tom Hanks birthday and it will speak it.
You need to ask a question that it can answer with the "knowledge graph" for it to speak, I think.
Try asking it who the president is, or ask when your favorite movie came out.
BoboBrazil
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Thanks for the responses. The issue actually was that I had app volume turned down, but all other volume up. Fixed that and now working great! Now just waiting for Sprint to launch LTE at my place. I've visited several LTE neighborhoods on Sprint(most of these spots only seem to be a quarter of a mile or less) and I've seen incredible speeds and also 3g like speeds while on LTE.
darkpaladinmfc
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I have a UK S3 running a CM10 ROM, how can I update to the latest official TouchWiz without losing all my data and installed programs?
jobber
Would let Tony Parker sleep with his wife
clockwork mod backup, wipe, install, restore apps and data?
Titanium Backup works too.
darkpaladinmfc
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So I updated to the first ROM in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646610 and now I'm hanging on the SAMSUNG logo screen on start-up. Is it a problem with a ROM incompatibility or something else? My phone is from Phones4u and on Orange so I assumed it would be unbranded.
Don't worry, you can still get to Cwm menu and install another rom or stock. I think it's power, vol down and home button. Just connect to pc and transfer another rom to your sd card and install it. Or restore the nandroid backup. You did do a nandroid?
MightGoThere
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darkpaladinmfc
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Yea this worked last night. The ROM I picked was compatible I just didn't do this. I tried to like TouchWiz but it's just too ugly, so I redeemed my 50GB of free Dropbox space I forgot to get then switched to ParanoidAndroid which I much prefer.
Dead Prince
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anyone using swype? and on JB. it seems to stop auto spacing after each word. i checked setting and it's already enabled.
Does anyone else have trouble transferring files from their PC to their phone and vice versa?
On Windows 7 64 over here, and while I seem to connect just fine, it tells me it'll take 8-9 hours to move a 136 MB album.
Didn't have this problem when I first got it, and I've done everything I can think of from restoring my phone back to factory settings, uninstalling and re-installing drivers (both Samsung and Kies), USB debug mode, switching from MTP to PTP and back, switching USB cords, nothing has worked.
On Windows 7 64 over here, and while I seem to connect just fine, it tells me it'll take 8-9 hours to move a 136 MB album.
Didn't have this problem when I first got it, and I've done everything I can think of from restoring my phone back to factory settings, uninstalling and re-installing drivers (both Samsung and Kies), USB debug mode, switching from MTP to PTP and back, switching USB cords, nothing has worked.
Never heard of that. Do you have WiFi at home? If so download and use Airdroid, itll transfer all your stuff over WiFi to your phone from your PC through a browser window until you can figure out what the problem is with the USB data rates.
Dead Prince
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i went to the site and running 1.3 now. is that latest? maybe it's just stock browser or mobile gaf. seems fine everywhere else.
Good advice, thanks!!!
Dead Prince
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that's what i got. when you use mobile gaf. does it work?
EDIT: think it's stock browser that's broke.
DUFFMCWALIN
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I want my JB update Verizon .
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