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Samsung Galaxy S III (new flagship Android phone from Samsung)
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Death Prophet
Yeah, I'm getting an iPhone 5 for Christmas, but I still kind of want an S3. The OS is just so sterile in iOS, home screen is pretty boring. Still, I'm somewhat invested in the ecosystem and there are things that I like about the iPhone better.
yeh ..for th life of me i don't know why any one would want to give up the extra functionality a stock samsung based rom offers for cm10 ... i mean seriously just load nova launcher and be done with it. the phone is fast enough.
holy shit at best face, will try this tomorrow
http://youtu.be/o7SEBepku-4?t=1m3s
Does your carrier have LTE and is LTE important to you? Do you want the option of more than 16GB of memory? Do you want the option of a removable battery?
If yes to all of those, get this. If no, get the Nexus 4 since it's cheaper by at least $200.
One thing I notice about iPhones and iPads that I kind of wish Androids have is how very little the battery drains when the screen is off. Your phone could be in sleep for hours and you'd only lose like 1% of battery. Not sure if it's because Android has so much stuff running in the background or anything but that always impressed me about iOS in general.
Think about how long we'll be waiting just to get up to 4.2.1 lol
The Faceless Master
Member
Verizon?
January 2014
Orbis Tabula
Member
So who uses a non-default messaging app? I've been using the default one and it was fine enough, but I learned today that it is complete balls at group messaging. I've been messing with Go SMS Pro, and it's pretty good, but I'm curious as to what other options there are.
Handcent is the only other one.
I'm staying with the default one only because of the lockscreen shortcut when you have a text. If they added a quick reply button in the notification for Handcent like the stock CM10 Messaging app, I'd probably use that.
I'm using Handcent. Used GoSMS for a while, but it's annoying for group messaging. On group messages I get 2 notifications from GoSMS, first as it come in as an sms, then 2 seconds later as it gets converted to mms (for group messaging).
Blue Geezer
Member
what's wrong with whatsapp?
VanquishUK
Member
Whatsapp with it?
I hate whatsapp because it forces me to sync contacts, I don't want to add telephone numbers of people from other countries, telephone numbers I'm never going to use otherwise. Besides I'm on a circle of people that changes telephone numbers constantly, the way they handle users just sure sucks.
thetechkid
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So should I wait out the month and see if Verizon stops being Verizon and releases the update or should I just try out Cyanogenmod on the S3?
<+)O Robido O(+>
Member
I got the feeling from the "Premium" tag that they were gonna try and charge for it. I hope that's not the case.
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
My answer will always be CM... always. (except if you use blu tooth audio)
thetechkid
Member
I used CM with my Incredible and loved it, I've heard that CM has had trouble with 3G/LTE or something.
CM for VZW sucks ass. Just use leaked rom and be done with it.
thetechkid
Member
Is there a real for why?
If you go to Verizon's info page for the S3, it looks like it's already running JB. : \
Bug list for CM10 on VZW GS3
The Faceless Master
Member
http://code.google.com/p/d2vzw-cm10-bugs/issues/list most likely at least one of these issues will annoy you...
can we sue those fkers?
The Return of
Banned
Can anyone help me out please? For the past few days, every time I plug in my usb from phone to computer, it doesn't show my phone in My Computer. Sometimes I have to just sit for like 30 mins and keep unplugging and plugging hoping it'd show up and Samsung Kies is completely useless because it never opens for me and says Fatal Error.
The Faceless Master
Member
they are such master trolls at big red... i told you guys there would be no JB on the VZW S3 until 2-3 weeks after the GN2 dropped!
MeshuggahMan
Member
So if not CM10 then what for vzw gs3?
Get one of the modded TouchWiz based rom (i.e. with annoying stuff removed, and additional toggles added, etc) and use a launcher like Go, Nova, Apex. Currently I'm just rolling with the latest leak (#4) plus Go launcher, because I was tired of beta testing the other roms as they were trying to keep up with official leaks.
Did you disabled All Share service by any chance? That will prevent computer from recognizing the phone altogether.
jombag
Member
Do you have your phone set up with security pin or password? On mine, I would neeed to unlock my phone first before my computer recognizes it.
The Return of
Banned
Where is this all share service? Is it on my phone? Sorry, just got the phone not too long ago so I don't know all about the settings and such
nah, I didn't.
Edit: You are talking about All Share play? I've never used it before
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
If you are on Sprint no LTE in the build. I don't live in a Sprint LTE area so it doesn't affect me 3g does work fine though. I understand how that could be a deal breaker for someone who does live in a LTE zone.
thetechkid
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I'm with Verizon.
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
Yea, then it's not worth it either. You'd just be flashing bugs. Wait for their next stable build then go for it.
Are you saying the computer does not recognize the phone is plugged in at all or are you saying that it fails to install driver?
AllShare Service should show up if you go to settings->application manager and go to the "all" tab. But if you never touched it before then it's probably fine. Maybe reboot your phone just to be sure. Other thing you could try is enable USB Debug in Settings->Developer Options. See if that helps.
If you see the phone come up with a notification when you connect to the computer, bring up the notification and select it. I think there's check box for "media device" and "camera" modes. Try different modes see if your computer recognize it.
I've been on the leaked JB roms for a month or so now. I don't notice that much worse battery drain; the additional drain is probably from Google Now which you could just not opt in if you don't want to.
That and location tracking in Google Maps. If you don't use location tracking disable it and your battery life will increase dramatically (at least it did for me).
Wrong. LTE works on the Sprint (nightly) builds.
Yesterday's YouTube update took a second to download.
glaringradio
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After finally getting fed up with my stupid shitty iPhone 4 (which has been replaced 3 times, all of those times due to a faulty home button, which my current one is suffering from big-style) I've just now purchased a Galaxy SIII.
Got a fairly good deal on it as well:
Handset free
2000 minutes
Unlimited Texts
Unlimited Data
Tethering allowed (also unlimited)
£28/month
So... I'm new to this, but any recommendations on what to do with the phone when it gets here to unleash its full potential? I'm all molly-coddled by iOS so I'm a bit scared about having a phone that I can actually do loads of stuff with...
Got a fairly good deal on it as well:
Handset free
2000 minutes
Unlimited Texts
Unlimited Data
Tethering allowed (also unlimited)
£28/month
So... I'm new to this, but any recommendations on what to do with the phone when it gets here to unleash its full potential? I'm all molly-coddled by iOS so I'm a bit scared about having a phone that I can actually do loads of stuff with...
How on earth do you get those numbers? Even before jb I got one day tops, with regular use. Based on your status bar you use it way more than I.
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
I've been flashing the nightlies but have never seen LTE speeds or an indicator of it on my phone. Perhaps it's because as I stated I don't live in a strong LTE area.
The Faceless Master
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start out by doing everything you used to do, but try to do some of them faster via widgets.
PwnCakes193
Member
SetCPU and CM10 on my ATT S3 are an amazing combination. My battery life has finally even ed out and it's nice to not see it drain like crazy all the time. I've been running CM10 since July and I just finally fully set up SetCPU now and it is the best battery saving app I've ever bought essentially.
Is this the case you use Squick?