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[Galaxy S III General] sub1n:
RAM: 1Gb is not enough.

Hi guys.

Been using the gorgeous phone for the last 4 days now (mostly sleepless).:p

Its an awsome device and you would enjoy it right from the moment you see the lock screen till you press the power button to put the screen off.

Said that I would like to talk about some gripes as the pros part is what all of you are aware off.

1. RAM ISSUES: the phone is easily consuming almost the entire RAM available.

with 5 home screens and round about 70 apps installed, the RAM consumed shoots up to more than 650 MB leaving only less than 100 MB most of the time.

Coz of this when you start an application like Video player or open multiple tabs in the browser, they closes down automatically due to insufficient RAM.

The video player especially I find it very damn slow and it crashes most often.

The problem is that only 780 MB ram is user vailable and about 400 MB is directly used by touchwiz...so we are left with some 350mb for ruuning other services...whgich in my option is quite less.

No wonder they are going with 2Gb rams for US variants. We shud have atleast got 1.5 Gb RAM.:(

2. Older official MHL cable of galaxy SII doesnt work with SIII. confirmed as many users have reported the same.

3. On landscape typing has become a problem. I often end up pressing the touch sensitive menu key while typing. This is because the buttons are placed so low down that even a slightest movement of your hands from the edge opens the menu options. (Realy annoying)_:mad:

So overall, RAM is the only major problem I have faced. The video player is so not tuned for it and crashes too often to my liking.

As I said before, I just highlighted my bads on my phone, might not be the same on all phones.

So guys what you have to say on this??
[Galaxy S III General] Baldilocks:
Have you tried not using Touchwiz?
[Galaxy S III General] v1rtu4l:
would be interesting to know what apps you got installed. there surely got to be some ram-hogg in there. i do not have problems at all and i have many apps installed and use the video player regulary.
[Galaxy S III General] Baldilocks:
As soon as I get mine I am rooting it and uninstalling a ton of pre-installed bloat. That helped a lot with my GS2. Not only with RAM, but more importantly, battery life.
[Galaxy S III General] Rueben_:
Hi guys doing videos on this device will update this post as I upload more first video is the unboxing :)

[YOUTUBE]dOTxmA4hal8[/YOUTUBE][YOUTUBE]f2-mV546TcA[/YOUTUBE][YOUTUBE]gYddzfn7nes[/YOUTUBE]
[Galaxy S III General] ronj1986:
Larry, I'll attempt to test the audio quality of an Atrix 2 today to compare for you. I have attached 2 screenshots from the GS3 showing you some call sound settings, that no one has reviewed online yet. There is a button that I have enabled during calls, that makes the other caller louder to me. I will post more screenshots later for you. There are many more options available.

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] n70shan:
for mine there is no issue with video player even pop up play works awesome! but the ram should be a bit more and yes touchwiz eats more ram. other then this there is a slightly bit problem with video while recording it loses focus and focus again and again in too and fro motion on object. otherwise Its a M fckin awsome king device from rest of the world Mobiles!!
[Galaxy S III General] Ancifad:
I don't really understand why it's been closed the thread of someone was writing about his problems with GS III and lack of memory RAM.

This device has problems as just been sayed and a lot of people are writing about this. Who say the contrary just don't have understood why this thing happens
[Galaxy S III General] LeviathanPT:
Nothing was deleted/closed, the post is here!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1656930&page=14
[Galaxy S III General] Ancifad:
sry not this but this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1694457
[Galaxy S III General] LeviathanPT:
Oh i thought it was merged, nvm but the discussion should be done in thread i mentioned above since it was an older thread.
[Galaxy S III General] Ancifad:
Ok bro do you have my same problems? 1 GB RAM sucks if you want to use hardly this galaxy s 3

OP ale0crysis (other thread) was right. Samsung should release 2 GB for everyone meh
[Galaxy S III General] misterxzibit:
Let me tell you my first impression:

Got the phone yesterday, I played with it for an hour until I noticed a dead pixel!! Samsung Quality Control sucks!

I sent it away, and I'm hoping for a replacement now. It'll probably arrive in 2-3 days. But I'm not so sure about that, cause Samsung said that you have to have atleast 3 dead pixels...
[Galaxy S III General] nl3181:
Where you found that dead pixel :eek:?

I just got my today...still busy playing around the phone...
[Galaxy S III General] NaabKing:
Can someone please upload a photo of languages? I will probably get SGS3 tommorow and i kinda need to know if there is "Slovenian" language (not Slovakia) :D My father doesnt know english that good, so he would be happy with Slovenian language :) Anyone? :)
[Galaxy S III General] ale0crysis:
Just to clarify, to see dead pixel just use test display of Samsung in the call settings *#0*#0
[Galaxy S III General] ale0crysis:
Of course
[Galaxy S III General] Baldilocks:
I've always had one dead pixel on my GS2, but it's at the bottom corner. Never really bothered me.
[Galaxy S III General] NaabKing:
Yeah, it's "Slovenščina", thanks! Gonna buy it tommorow (=
[Galaxy S III General] ale0crysis:
If i helped you press thanks :D Enjoy it and gl :cool:
[Galaxy S III General] Kendoji:
Just got my SGS3 and it is great so far. I was one of the pentile naysaysers in the wake of the announcement, but I'm quite happy with the screen. I can see the pentile matrix, but at normal viewing distances it looks ok. And the screen is definitely sharper than my SGS2.

Now if I could only get MTP to work on my ancient Win XP laptop...
[Galaxy S III General] NaabKing:
Done :P
[Galaxy S III General] misterxzibit:
It's at the bottom, where the contacts shortcut is. It's small but it annoys me. I can see it...
[Galaxy S III General] Baldilocks:
Yeah, I never noticed it unless I did those screen tests.
[Galaxy S III General] seannity:
Been using my SGS3 for a week and what I could say is it is amazing phone, was comparing with HTC One X and I never regret picked SGS3
[Galaxy S III General] Sensamic:
Has anyone tried emulators on the SGS3 to see if the work ok?

Im interested in using the N64 and GBA emulators. Has anyone tried them?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III General] ItsaRaid:
I cant tell you how much I appreciate your Help. I emailed Dan Bader thru the Gen Info email a

t Mobil Syrup, but never got a response, he did the S-3 Review on XDA.

I was hopeful that maybe someone from XDA would know, but Im not really getting any productive results. Not all of the Review Sites test for Audio Output (very few do that) Im suprised because its truthfully a simple thing to do, and to me its important-

Im about to throw in the towel on this. THanks, looking forward to hearing from you or anyone else that can help.

Im trying to compare the Audio Output of the HOX and GS-3 to the Atrix2, it appears that the GS-3 according to the Audio findings of GSMarena is louder than the HOX?

Problem is how do they Compare to the Atrix2.

Again, Thank you!
[Galaxy S III General] Rueben_:
New video uploaded the software this time :) vid is intended for people who do not have the phone yet :) [YOUTUBE]RcGpg3DwTSQ[/YOUTUBE]
[Galaxy S III General] ItsaRaid:
Is anyone able to forward my question to the person who posted the Video above?

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Rueben,

I guess you are also Ruebarb? Can you help? I have a Atrix2 and wanted to know how the Audio Output of the Galaxy S-3 and or the HOX compare to it- How does it compare to the Motorola Atrix2? Which is what I currently have-

Of the 2, which is the "Loudest". Unfortunately I have a Sensory Hearing Defecit, and thats why this issue is so important to me.

I hope you can help me out!

Thank you

Larry
[Galaxy S III General] ewingr:
Ram

Lordy. The main reason I even interest is because of low ram on my Captivate (SGS1 variant).

INterestingly, I have just this past week put an ICS ROM on it, and it is running better than in a long time. I have a lot of apps installed. Of course, this phone doesn't have near the RAM that the III does, so it is surprisingi to hear this.

Definitely disappointing. Maybe a custom ROM will be needed.

I too am concerned about using it wiht BT in my Mercedes E350 Coupe. I've read of issues in Mercedes.

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Is there a method to get it back to stock, in case of warranty needs?
[Galaxy S III General] ckochinsky125:
Well good to see the extra ram will be put to good use for those of us getting the US variants. Plus with ICS I am going to disable the bloat that I would never touch anyway
[Galaxy S III General] Kreeker:
Does anyone not have white? I want to see some good high-res images of blue. A comparison image would be nice.
[Galaxy S III General] katamari201:
I heard auto-brightness defaults to a low setting when indoors. My question is, how dingy or grainy does the phone display look, and are there any apparent lines or streaks? My T-mobile Galaxy S2 really looks terrible if under 50% brightness, and you can see the streaks everywhere there's a remotely solid block of anything, from wallpapers to the notification bar to website backgrounds. Even videos that are not perfectly black, you can see the streaks running down the entire video, like cracks in wood. White backgrounds are of course very very dirty looking and grainy. At 100% brightness, the streaks are still faintly there.

I know these issues depend on the type of AMOLED panel used, because my friend has a Pantech Burst with a 4" SupeAMOLED screen and at a decent brightness level, her display looks great, with no defects or strange stuff or dirtiness besides the dithering/gradient issue inherent to all AMOLEDs. Her's is penTile and my T-mobile S2 is RGB.

Since the S3 is penTile, does it not have any of these issues I mentioned above?

Does it look as good as the One X IPS display? The thing about the One X is how smooth edges look, on text and other things. It isn't pokey and rough, looks very pleasant and organic. The AMOLEDs I've seen have super-high contrast, and the pixels don't bleed together, so they look super pokey at a lower resolution. Does the 720p resolution of the S3 fix this pokey pixelation-ness?
[Galaxy S III General] Kendoji:
Well I'd say that yes, it does look a little dingy on auto-brightness. I was a little shocked when I first turned it on as the whites looked very, erm, not white. But when I cranked up the brightness manually it was fine. As for lines or other visual artefacts on low brightness I certainly can't see any. It's just a bit murky.

As for the pentile display, I was very concerned about sharpness. Since getting the phone I've found that the pentile aspect is definitely visible - you WILL notice it at relatively short viewing distances, but in practice it's really not annoying at all. The screen is plenty sharp and much more impressive than the SGS2. So I've gone from being a loud pentile naysayer to being quite happy with the screen - and although I look forward to a non-pentile amoled display of this size, I don't think it's going to bother me at all in the coming year.
[Galaxy S III General] ilprofessore:
I just got mine. First Impressions: The phone heats up a bit when installing apps and sync. When shaking the phone I discovered a metallic sound on the back camera. Someone found these problems?
[Galaxy S III General] MagicOnline:
nothing metallic here, all quite.
[Galaxy S III General] feroztier:
I was thinking of deleting the bloatware apps that i do not want, in case of warranty issues is there anyway to recover everything back to stock ?
[Galaxy S III General] Kendoji:
Yes you can always flash back to a stock ROM, and use 'Triangle Away' to reset the flash counter.
[Galaxy S III General] Jirv311:
Unfortunately, I have to wait another couple weeks before I can get mine, otherwise, I would test this for you. I'm assuming it's got a good loud speaker on it but can't confirm that yet. There is an application called Volume+ in the Market (I mean Play Store) that does a great job at boosting the poor audio on my HTC Vivid, though in case it's not loud enough.
[Galaxy S III General] yuvas:
Hey Guys!

Just bought my SGS3!

Will post pics soon!

No pink tint whats so ever!

I have a question!

I am not able to launch the camera from the lock screen by touching and tilting the phone! This option is not available under settings>motion! what do I do?

Thanks in advance!
[Galaxy S III General] brownmc77:
Sprint Pre-Order

Just tried to Pre-Order from Sprint and their out of stock already. Thought I was ahead of the game, checking the Sprint website daily for the pre order page. Dammitttt
[Galaxy S III General] v1rtu4l:
Search in the security lockscreen options!

Gesendet von meinem GT-I9300 mit Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] brendonwardmusic:
Coming from the S2 I didn't think the S3 would be that much of an upgrade I was soooo wrong.

Absolutely loving the new touchwiz, being a diehard CM9 user this has surprised me, finally samsung have come up with something different.

The screen is wow, no tint either, camera is superb compared to the S2.

No more flashing custom roms for me, just kernels :)
[Galaxy S III General] cmd512:
I know there are issues with Light Flow draining the battery, but are you guys seeing even color distribution during the light cycle test when the LED comes on? If I look at the LED, it's almost multi-colored and not evenly 1 color.
[Galaxy S III General] Baldilocks:
Got my white GS3 about 2 hours ago and I LOVE it!! Already rooted and removed some of the bloatware. Time for a few screentshots. :)

If anyone has any questions, just ask. Still looking through everything myself.
[Galaxy S III General] freemini:
Is there any purple tint on grays when using low brightness? This problem made me return the GNex. What about major graininess at low brightness?
[Galaxy S III General] drbveb88:
what about the radio signal, 3g or 4g? Samsung does not have the greatest track record as far as signal strength, any problems?
[Galaxy S III General] Baldilocks:
I don't see either of those on mine. White's look white too. No pink tint.
[Galaxy S III General] drbveb88:
Ordered mine today in the US. 199 US dollars w/2yr contract.
[Galaxy S III General] SamungGalaxyS2:
How's the battery life?
[Galaxy S III General] Baldilocks:
So far so good. It's been off the charger for about 4 hours while I have been messing with it. Still has 69% battery left. That's pretty good considering I have barely put it down.

After a few cycles I will get some stats on it.
[Galaxy S III General] Mr Ian B:
How are the earbuds that come with the phone. Are they better than those uncountable iPhone earbuds? How is sound through them.

Thanks,

Ian B
[Galaxy S III General] P1n3apqlExpr3ss:
They're proper in ear ones and a bunch of other gel ear implant things come with it. Sound quality through them isn't amazing but it'll be good enough for most people
[Galaxy S III General] kingwp1:
I've preordered mine with AT&T. Do you have a list of bloatware that's ok to remove, or is it kinda obvious?
[Galaxy S III General] clax6:
forgive me if this has already been answered

i have the same sun with the number 1 in the middle and i think it is a symbol of british summer time +1 hour
[Galaxy S III General] Baldilocks:
Not really sure what apps will come preloaded on the AT&T variant.
[Galaxy S III General] @home:
Just got mine & had a quick look at the back under natural light - Looks to have like an oil effect on it.

Is this normal Or have a I got a dodgy handset?
[Galaxy S III General] MarkieSA:
Just got my pebble blue from T-Mobile UK via an upgrade and I can see that the back panel colour is different to the front cover of the phone, honestly, I don't care. If any of you want to see photo's just let me know and I will post some later. The only problem is that you can only see the difference when you hold it at a certain angle.
[Galaxy S III General] NaabKing:
Show us please, i'm waiting for the Blue version too
[Galaxy S III General] MarkieSA:
Here are the pictures of my pebble blue clearly showing the colour differences between the back and front

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BzYlUkl9bJ3MU0pxRU5BeWVWRFk
[Galaxy S III General] Xplorah:
mine should be delivered today
[Galaxy S III General] the2rrell:
Just got my white phone yesterday. love it, no color tints. and no lag at all that i have seen.

only gripe is i cant seem to get the phone to see my ext sd through root explorer.

the built in file explorer see's it just fine. other than that, no issues at all yet. and the screen is beautiful.

thought i would be a little let down with all the threads but i was not at all. its just a little small....coming from the Note.

EDIT : never mind, its just in a different place.
[Galaxy S III General] vinuneuro:
Please do! Is the home button color different to the front face color as well like I've seen in some photos? Home button seems to still be the original lighter purplish blue color while the rest of the phone has become darker and greyer.
[Galaxy S III General] Baldilocks:
Just for everyone else, since you already found it -- it's located here:

/mnt/extSdCard
[Galaxy S III General] pinmemo:
the galaxy s3 is so hot.. it's literally burning my hands right now :p
[Galaxy S III General] clax6:
I'm happy with the battery so far and this is from my first overnight charge!
[Galaxy S III General] ronj1986:
I didn't see the back in any of your pictures
[Galaxy S III General] aphexvw:
did anyone else have trouble getting the back off?
[Galaxy S III General] mercado79:
you can't see the full picture in the thumbnails. once you click on the images, you'll see what he means. the back is much darker than the front.
[Galaxy S III General] Rueben_:
Another new video to add this time a comparison I have one more vid to add to the collection, display on Galaxy s3 but i dont know when it will be up. Check out my Sig youtube channel to c the rest of the vids :)

Galaxy s3 VS Galaxy Note hardware :)

[YOUTUBE]SWwesl_E9Kw[/YOUTUBE]​
[Galaxy S III General] Toss3:
I was talking about the pentile display, when looking at webpages. :) It really doesn't bother me nearly as much as it did on the SGS, which was really atrocious, but it is there. Don't really pay attention to it other than when I'm sitting with my face stuck really close to the screen.

Now it's time to take some pics with my new baby. :cool:

EDIT: It is also worth noting that there is a slight curvature(convex, like the Lumia 800 and One X) to the screen that I didn't see in the videos, which was a really nice surprise. Loved how it felt on the Lumia and now it feels even better on the SGS3. ;)
[Galaxy S III General] Tachikoma_kun:
Anyone tried the game hub? can we get a list of what's in there, or is it still offline?

Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] archaen:
Woohoo! Just recevied my SMS telling me a package is waiting for me at the post office (wonder what that can be? a White S3 Perhaps?"!! =)

In about 1,5 h I will be at home unboxing it.

I will help answer any questions about the features .

!! =)
[Galaxy S III General] ZankerH:
I'm leaving now, my carrier is holding a launch event in a couple hours. Can't wait! :D
[Galaxy S III General] Toss3:
Just played an 8Gb 1080p mkv straight from my external SD-Card formatted to exFAT, without any hint of stuttering with diceplayer. The stock video player did stutter a bit(could be due to my slow sd-card, or just an unsupported mkv type).
[Galaxy S III General] tim427:
I've got mine in the pocket ;)
[Galaxy S III General] simonr43:
Anyone on Orange UK tell me if there is support for Signal Boost/UMA?

Ta
[Galaxy S III General] carn_ival:
Pre- booked mine in India thru Samsung Online Store. Intimation will come on 31st 12 night. On making balance payment will get in next 3 days!!!!

Waiting eagerly for it!!!:p
[Galaxy S III General] saphirrot:
guys, can someone post a video of the GPS function with GPS Test App ??? Germany would be perfect, other countrys would be cool too !

thanks !
[Galaxy S III General] LeviathanPT:
Can anyone confirm that exFAT is supported ?
[Galaxy S III General] Mopral:
It could be good to read before posting...
[Galaxy S III General] Toss3:
GPS Performance is just amazing. Getting a GPS lock as soon as I open google maps.
[Galaxy S III General] LeviathanPT:
I've actually searched by before posting' in all child forums the only info I got was from the q&a about the ext4 file system, I've also re-read the info posted by supercurio , this info sadly didn't show up.

I thank you anyway for pointing me the information.
[Galaxy S III General] Toss3:
Testing the sound quality has proven more difficult than I thought, but I can say for sure that the sound is way different from the SGS2, with much better separation and detail. Remains to be seen how much further it can be improved with Voodoo Sound.

To me the SGS3 sound A LOT better, but I got paranoid after the whole SGS2 to ICS debacle, so I'm waiting for some solid measurements before declaring the SGS3 the best audio player.
[Galaxy S III General] g4rvd4:
You mean the screen glass itself is convex??? :eek:
[Galaxy S III General] nf0rc3r:
FINALLY!!!

Going thru the grueling 8 hours charge ^^
[Galaxy S III General] Skellig86:
I should really stop reading this thread. Go knows when I'll get my blue S3 :(

Congrats to all you lucky owners!
[Galaxy S III General] acexii:
I got mine too. only white is available. pebble blue is currently unavailable worldwide. probably arriving in 2-3 weeks' time according to Samsung.

Honestly, everything is great. the speed, the feel and the new features. After playing around with it for the past couple of hours. I realise....

a) i can't set my own full-res wallpaper - the phone only allows u to select portrait instead of landscape orientation for the wallpaper. black borders at the sides when u go to your last screens on both sides.

b) some default widgets do not work on Nova Launcher and Apex Launcher. e.g. The digital clock (which is 4x2)

Will update this post if i find anything else.

Honestly, I feel that Samsung has pushed this phone out to soon and haven't done much fine tuning yet. I hope they will have an update soon!

Oh ya, free 50GB of storage in dropbox for 24 months. =D

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Nope. The screen is flat.
[Galaxy S III General] vasp3690:
changed my order from blue to white, in hope that amazon will pull through and send it on the 31st.

can i ask you guys, is there a possibility to install apps on the SD card rather than the internal memory?

also can you tell me if the maps for navigation can be installed in the SD card as well?

thanks