Stitch
Gold Member
Because Samsung doesn't allow it
Ordered a Anker 4400mAh battery from amazon. I hope it's good lol.
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Samsung Galaxy S III (new flagship Android phone from Samsung)
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Because Samsung doesn't allow it
Ordered a Anker 4400mAh battery from amazon. I hope it's good lol.
BIGWORM
Member
Because Samsung doesn't allow it
Ordered a Anker 4400mAh battery from amazon. I hope it's good lol.
It's good. On AOSP, I was at 80% after 11.5 hours off battery and 1.5 hours of screen-on time. :-D
OneEightZero
aka ThreeOneFour
Does it affect NFC?
Jack Scofield
Member
For the past 12 hours or so, my phone has been listed as "awake" on the battery graph, even though wi-fi and the screen were turned off. Any idea why the sudden change? It didn't used to be like this.
EDIT: As reference,
Notice how the phone used to be awake only occasionally. Obviously something happened that changed that for the worse.
EDIT: As reference,
Notice how the phone used to be awake only occasionally. Obviously something happened that changed that for the worse.
Install BetterBatteryStats, see what is causing all the wakelocks. You'll probably have to uninstall or disable whatever it is, I've never found a way to actually fix these things without the app dev doing it himself.
BIGWORM
Member
The ROM I'm running has AOSP, but the Anker battery does not support NFC. I never really cared for it, any how.
The Faceless Master
Member
Because Samsung doesn't allow it
Ordered a Anker 4400mAh battery from amazon. I hope it's good lol.
it's more complicated than that. they set up their partitions is a pretty strange way to ensure the best space usage and backwards compatibility with old apps, some of which basically need to have a sdcard partition present.
the full amount of available user space cn be used for apps, and you can have your music/video/images stored on the SD. Google's solution is no SD card at all!
Rewrite
Not as deep as he thinks
I ran into this problem for the first time a few days ago. It would drain my battery so fast and "media server" would be the main thing with the highest percent in drain when I looked at my battery stats. Figured it would be a one day thing, but Google Play Music froze on me again and it had the same effect. I basically ended up putting my music into my SD card and haven't had any issue anymore.
Stitch
Gold Member
Yes, that's why I didn't get the Nexus 4. I need space for my mp3s
Just got the Anker battery. Damn, my phone is huge now. But still sexy haha
Sounds good. Should be great for Puzzle & Dragons and Plague Inc. They drain my battery way too fast. :>
OneEightZero
aka ThreeOneFour
Shin Johnpv
Member
My computer will recognize and say it's connected, but I can not actually write anything to the SD card or the Phone any more. If I want to send anything to it I have to take the SD card out and use it in a card reader.
Indeed. It's only the latest version that came out a week or so ago. I imagine it will be fixed soon.
Zoe
Member
This has been happening to me for a few months now--some time after JellyBean.
So my GF has AT&T version of GS3 on stock JB. Everyday, during her travel to work, she goes through areas where she can't get reception. However, what we have noticed is that it takes forever for her phone to get 4G connection back after she re-enters areas with reception. The worst part is that even though she can get data connection back, we typically have to reset the radios for the GPS to be able to get a lock in maps or navigation programs afterward. Anyone else has the issue? I've never seen that problem on my VZW GS3.
BIGWORM
Member
I'm on the d2tmo variant, running JellyBAM 3.3.0. I believe it was formerly named the PAC ROM series.
Rewrite
Not as deep as he thinks
I'll keep an eye for an update since it only started to recently happen to me. I don't think I'll go back to it if it continues...it's really annoying having to constantly deal with the freezes. Poweramp is where it's at for me at the moment.
My computer recognizes it as a "camera" and the list of suggested programs to open are photoshop...
I have to do the exact same thing you do. Sucks, man. I didn't have any problems when it had ICS.
This is a few pages old and I dont think anybody answered. Id like to know this aswell.
Happened on mine a while back. Turns out there was a small bit of pocket lint built up at the back of the usb connection. With the loose enough pins on the charger it was failing to make constant contact while charging hence the wakes to inform you of charging cycles. A toothpick and some canned air fixed it.
Shin Johnpv
Member
I hope it's fixed soon, but who the hell do you write to, to let them know its broken.
Yeah. Works for me, but the service is still far buggier than spotify or... well, any other comparable service.
It might have something to do with SEN/PSN maintenance today. Try again in 10 hours when it's over.
When you're in Chrome, hit the menu button and tap on the star.
Aah, I was trying to work out what the menu button was all this time lol. Touch screen thing next to home button, heh.
When you say group text, do you mean sending a text to a bunch of people at once?
That I know how to do. But apparently with his phone (and iPhones) if someone sends a text with multiple recipients it'll create a separate conversation and the replied message will be sent back to all those people. With this phone it just sends it to the original sender, not all the people it was sent to.
It's pretty useful for setting up something with a few people as they can all reply to the messages. Think of it like a chat room.
Android default messaging app doesn't have group text. Use a third party text app such as Handcent and turn on group messaging.
Ah, yeah, download Handcent and enable group messaging on there.
I too have been wondering this since I switched from iPhone. Thanks for a solution!
10.1? No problems here.
Gamer @ Heart
Member
I said this a couple of pages ago, but fuck Kies so much.
Full reinstall and reboot and i still cant get this pos software to connect to my gs3.
Is it my computer? If i try to do this at work, will it recognize it then maybe? So bullshit a phone this popular is only getting 4.1 through this fucking program.
Full reinstall and reboot and i still cant get this pos software to connect to my gs3.
Is it my computer? If i try to do this at work, will it recognize it then maybe? So bullshit a phone this popular is only getting 4.1 through this fucking program.
blainethemono
Member
Having a really weird issue with CM10.1 nightlies. After a while every time I press the home button it registers as a long press and brings up the task switcher instead of returning to the home screen. It also causes certain apps to register touch inputs on the screen as long presses. For example I won't be able to turn pages on the kindle app, but rather text will be highlighted as if i'm holding down on the screen. Fucking weird and I have no idea whats causing it but it's been an issue ever since I switched to 10.1. Rebooting the phone clears it up but after a while it starts happening again
Are you on AT&T? They just pushed the update out OTA. Go to Settings > About device > Software Update.
aparisi2274
Member
QQ... Is the S4 release still expected around April? trying to find some info on it, but I have no idea what is true and what is BS...
Gamer @ Heart
Member
OMG. Bless you. How the fuck did i not hear about this? I visit engadget and the verge every day.
It came out a couple days ago. Probably not super newsworthy I guess.
Gamer @ Heart
Member
True. Since every carrier has it now in some form, it didnt make the cycles i guess.
Again, thank you. I had given up hope. Still, 2 months to go OTA. How does that happen?
Anyone use a third party email client, if so which is the best. In the normal client there doesn't seem to be an option to push outlook accounts. I get push with my university email through it, but Live mail/Outlook doesn't seem to have the option.
edit: set it up as a MS exchange activesync and now its pushing.
edit: set it up as a MS exchange activesync and now its pushing.
BIGWORM
Member
By far and wide, K-9 Mail is the best 3rd party email app.