ElectricBlanketFire
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Strictly anecdotal: The few people I know who have had both prefer the S3.
I have the S3 myself and love it.
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Strictly anecdotal: The few people I know who have had both prefer the S3.
I have the S3 myself and love it.
Right now, you should wait for the SIV.
The Faceless Master
Member
wait for 5S
I think ill see if a wipe would help just going to have to back everything up
Ugh this totally works on the S2 but not the S3. I don't think there's a way to change the app tray without installing a launcher or rooting. That sucks. Didn't Samsung realise I don't want to use those shitty apps?
legacyzero
Banned
So the bottom corner of the back plate has a small chip in it. Damn, I must have dropped it somehow 
Is there a way I can just buy a a replacement for the back cover?
Is there a way I can just buy a a replacement for the back cover?
I can still do this on my S3.
razgriz417
Member
rumor is S4 is gonna show up in March so def wait on that
FlyingTeacup
Member
and wait another 3-6 months for it? i guess it depends on the urgency....
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
I see your questions were not answered yet. As for the charging it up and letting it die that's old urban legend from the batteries of old back in the flip phone days. But now you do not need to do that. Battery tech has improved from 10 years ago.
I don't have any recommendations on a case. I use a smoked argyle jelly cover.
Rewrite
Not as deep as he thinks
That's weird because I can also move and remove them if I want and I'm on stock. Same with the ones on the lock screen. On the S2, I couldn't move or add any icons...
BoboBrazil
Member
Anyone else with Sprint S3? Does yours have a weak radio? I lose reception in quite a few spots that says no reception. It doesn't even roam, it just basically loses service. Is this a common problem with this phone? I'll probably end up selling it when the S4 comes out and buying that. I'd hope I can still get $300+ for it at that time.
LonelyIsland
Member
that means your GS3 has detected a media player in your network that can stream that file. However depending on your media player, it might not be able to play that format.
Moneyhats2k5
Member
I would wait for a March annoucement, since the S4 would come with 4.2x
moojito
Member
Is it on power saving mode? That cuts the cpu speed down, and its maybe struggling under the weight of having a lot of stuff open.
If you find out, post back here. I'm interested in creating a dock station with MHL for display, USB on the Go, and a bluetooth keyboard.
Complex Shadow
Cudi Lame
I have a nexus. And I was wondering if I unlock/root/install a custom ROM. Is there anyway I can go back to stock & locked at the press of a button?
Realized this a few days ago when I was travelling. Back in an airport again and I'm reminded foxfi doesnt work using wifi on the s3. :/
The whole reason I bought an app to use my phone as a wireless hotspot was because I didnt want to root again.
Faulty headphones or she doenst have them pushed all the way into he jack probably.
The whole reason I bought an app to use my phone as a wireless hotspot was because I didnt want to root again.
Faulty headphones or she doenst have them pushed all the way into he jack probably.
Frangipani
Neo Member
Yup, happens a lot but only at my job, so far. Which sucks. Just been uploading a lot of music and using the stock music player app. No more radio for me at work
Thanks for the answer.
I already did that with the battery before you answered (just one time), so hoping it didn't actually cause any damage ;p
About the case - I'm seeing a lot of people recommending Otterbox commuter/defender, but also people having issues with them.
I'm not really sure I want it tho.. it makes a huge phone even bigger, it just makes the phone ugly :/
The Faceless Master
Member
you can try using a keyboard with arrow keys.
http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...10833&cs_id=1083314&p_id=10019&seq=1&format=2
http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...10833&cs_id=1083314&p_id=10021&seq=1&format=2
http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10833&cs_id=1083306&p_id=9739&seq=1&format=2
Probably the first one is what you want, but I think you're going to have to hack it so that you can connect USB OTG at the same time...
The phone version of Swiftkey has an option for arrow keys, they make correcting text a lot easier.
Seriously Samsungs Firmware is so fucked.
Why is there millions of millions different firmwares for each country, for the international version.
Seriously what the fuck is going on?
What the fuck is this?
It's doing my head in trying to figure out which one is which?
Samsung need to get their firmware shit together.
Why is there millions of millions different firmwares for each country, for the international version.
Seriously what the fuck is going on?
What the fuck is this?
It's doing my head in trying to figure out which one is which?
Samsung need to get their firmware shit together.
BoboBrazil
Member
Yup, happens a lot but only at my job, so far. Which sucks. Just been uploading a lot of music and using the stock music player app. No more radio for me at work
I think you might have misunderstood. I meant the antenna more specifically I guess. The reception goes in and out, like even just sitting in one place I can go from no bars to 5 bars sometimes and I lose reception completely in some areas where it doesn't even roam.. I figure this is because Samsung has a horrible antenna in this phone. Hopefully that is rectified in the next one.
LOL, most people will never see this stuff or know what it is. If your flashing roms like this its up to you to figure out what is what.
I wouldn't have to flash if Kies worked.
Orange won't let OTA updates and literally Kies will not work. I've gone through everything, this phone will just not work with Kies.
List of everything I've tried:
- Five different PC's, from xp, vista, windows 7
- Before and after re-formating my PC
- Tried every driver for this phone I can find.
- Actually physically replaced my phone with a new one after spotting a dead spot on my phones camera, still exactly same problem.
I've got the phone recognized in Kies a few times, first time it wouldn't update, something about not supported. All remaining times, it says there is no update. Despite the Orange firmware 4.1.1 to have been released for months.
Kies is a full out piece of shit. So sick of this Orange firmware, and constant failure of Kies. I download the required ROM. Fire up Odin. Literally 5 minutes later I have my phone updated to the latest version.
Now you're probably thinking, not the users problem they shouldn't be doing that. Well actually. This is probably a real reason we're seeing such an awful firmware support from Samsung. They are literally making thousands of different ROM's for every country, for every carrier, for every phone.
This is a really really fucked up way of working this phone. The original international S3 should be one platform. 1 update to cover the whole thing. But no we're still waiting on ROM's to be released for our specific country. It's a joke.
You can't tell me having 1000+ different ROM's for a single phone is a good thing.
The Faceless Master
Member
a part of the problem is carriers. if you buy a carrier phone, then the carrier is Samsung's customer... if you want to be the customer of the company that actually makes the phone, you probably want an iPhone.
BIGWORM
Member
Got mine. Wife gave my Pebble Blue (more like baby blue?) flip cover to her coworker, which ironically was her birthday. I have no use for the Tec Tiles because I'm using the Anker extended battery that doesn't have NFC. I'm thinking about buying an external wall charger + extra battery so that I can keep the form factor.
Each carrier has its own specific software and addons, not to mention radios. Not much Samsung can do, they have to provide updates for them all.
Or a Nexus. I'm hoping a really nice quality Nexus comes out, the Nexus 4 is an amazing phone for it's price. But I'd like to see a Sony Nexus or Motorola's Nexus (provided they completely COMPLETELY revamp their design team).
That I understand is a necessary evil if Samsung wants to get their phone out. But why are there multiple unbranded firmwares? One for each country. It's ridiculous. They can't spare an extra couple megabytes to just bundle all the radio software into one international ROM? I find that incredibly ridiculous. Shit how come Apple can have one platform across the whole world?
many of those on samfirmware are not final versions and not meant for the public. There's probably only one or two official roms for each.
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qizah
Unconfirmed Member
Is there any truth to the whole 'draining your battery once a month is healthy for your battery' thing?
I generally charge my battery whenever I'm around a power source (if it's convenient to do so), so I haven't drained my S3 battery yet. I got it last December so it's still relatively new.
I generally charge my battery whenever I'm around a power source (if it's convenient to do so), so I haven't drained my S3 battery yet. I got it last December so it's still relatively new.
Dead Prince
Banned
Sprint just turned on 4G in Baton rouge, LA.
this is my second phone (First was HTC Evo 4G). i can enjoy the S3 now lol.
this is my second phone (First was HTC Evo 4G). i can enjoy the S3 now lol.
Moneyhats2k5
Member
Nice. how fast?
Dead Prince
Banned
it's nice here finally.
but will still suck since at work there's no signal at all probably and i'm in the city lol.
Moneyhats2k5
Member
Haven't gotten anything that fast in Los Angeles yet. I think my highest is 17 mbps.
This is my first smartphone and I have the feeling there's a bit of screen ghosting...
Like, when I scroll upwards/downwards, I can clearly see the text almost going double (like the pixels are a tad too slow.) This happens especially with black text on a white background. Ever since I noticed this, I begin to see it everywhere on the screen.
Could be I'm just too OCD-minded though.
Like, when I scroll upwards/downwards, I can clearly see the text almost going double (like the pixels are a tad too slow.) This happens especially with black text on a white background. Ever since I noticed this, I begin to see it everywhere on the screen.
Could be I'm just too OCD-minded though.
The Faceless Master
Member
which Nexus? Galaxy Nexus? that had several variants, some updated by Google, some by Samsung, some screwed over by Verizon and Sprint.
Nexus 4? good luck buying one!
nope.
Basically a Nexus you buy off Google. I'm not in the anti-competitive states where you have to sell your soul to the only telecoms company in your area in order to receive a gimped branded phone to use.
In the UK you can use any phone you like with any carrier. Saying that I'll be buying the next Nexus, Nexus 4 while as I said is just slightly under the quality I'd like, it's also impossible to get a hold off like you said.
But then again I've just flashed 4.1.2 onto my phone, reset it. Received a bit of a performance boost. (thanks to the guys recommending that). Multiview is ... well why hasn't this been done before! Could do with more app support. Then there is the smart rotate, (rotates phone depending on your face) etc etc Samsung has really outdone themselves with innovate features.
I'm still very disappointed with the performance. I mean no joke, my girlfriends San Diego (a low budget Intel android smart phone) beats my phone out in numerous areas from loading contact lists, to the messaging app, to multitasking. Samsung need to get their TouchWiz on par if not better than stock android. At the moment it's really lagging behind.
Incontinentia Buttocks
Banned
What are you hoping for at £280? Pretty much the best you could get at that price really.