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[Galaxy S III General] amppcguru:
i9300 stock firmware for US/ATT/Net10?

I have an unlocked i9300 that came with 4.1.2. It works great with Net10 over ATT towers. I have since rooted & flashed Carbon Rom 4.3.1 & Liquid Smooth 4.3.1 & would like to get a stock firmware back on it just in case? For some reason there aren't any links to the USA version of the i9300 firmware that I can find. Anyone have a link to the USA GSM/ATT compatable firmware?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III General] Product F(RED):
The i9300 is a European phone. There is no American firmware for it.
[Galaxy S III General] amppcguru:
OK I GET THAT but which firmware is the right one to download for this phone to work in the US?

I have Carbon Rom 4.3.1 running fine with a Net10 ATT Sim card. It also worked out of the box with Stock 4.1.2 on it but not sure what CSC it was for. Somehow my original backups mysteriously disappeared & I was wanting to get a stock firmware BU back on it.
[Galaxy S III General] Freakadroidz:
Well, I can't post pics on my acc yet, but here are 2 screenshots I made so you can see for yourself.

Copy , Paste, eliminate the spaces.

h t t p ://flic.kr/p/bUgwDV

h t t p ://flic.kr/p/bUgwGp
[Galaxy S III General] sub1n:
Problems with S voice.

Hi guys...

Sorry if this has been answered before....but please help me if its at all possible on SIII as demoed.

Saw some claims that S voice can take pictures with a voice command like 'cheese'

or 'shoot', and also control the music app to increase the volume or play next song.

Here, I am able to open the music app as well as the camera with S voice but its not taking the voice anymore to snap pictures or change tracks.

Please help if I m missing something.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S III General] Geengeld:
Go to Settings -> Language and Input -> Voice cmd for apps (tick on)
[Galaxy S III General] johnboywilson:
This is already a feature. No need for an app.

Call Settings, Call Alert, Call Vibrations.
[Galaxy S III General] juDGEY2k10:
Smart stay only works when u put on time out for more than a few min
[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).

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)_

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] asasisa1:
thanks

thanks i've searching for smart stay^^
[Galaxy S III General] qasdfdsaq:
Service Mode

The old method for getting into Samsung's Service Mode (*#*#197328640#*#*) no longer works, neither do many of the service mode shortcuts (e.g. *#2263#)

However *#0011# to get to the basic information screen does work, and from there you can press menu then back to access the rest of service mode.
[Galaxy S III General] cippy:
Try *#197328640# instead ;)
[Galaxy S III General] Lennyuk:
erm no? It works fine for me and others at 15 seconds and 30 second time outs.
[Galaxy S III General] Plexicle:
Yup, same. I have mine at 15 seconds. It will stay on forever if I'm looking at it and there's some light in the room.
[Galaxy S III General] Danielfr:
I have the same problem.

I am looking for another program

Daniel
[Galaxy S III General] ronj1986:
Please view my thread, add the tips to yours.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1696374

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] turt:
Hi,

Anyone knows how to display the hour at the bottom of the lock screen instead of the top?

There was an option to do that on a GS2 with ICS, but I can't find it on the GS3...

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III General] Stevemeister:
Got a question to.

When you insert headphones a menu pops up in the notification drawer.

Is there any way to disable this? I guess not but it isnt a crime to ask I hope :D
[Galaxy S III General] NBB823151:
This is a known issue:

Fix:

Go to settings...Accessibility....then under services make sure Light flow is turned off.

In the Light flow app it will keep reminding you< for some reason, to turn it on in the accessibility service...DO NOT just disable the check in the LF app..

then you now have it working.

Hope that helps
[Galaxy S III General] Danielfr:
I have followed your advice and it seems to work.

Thank you.

Daniel
[Galaxy S III General] dhendy91:
I think a lot of people will already know this, but in the contacts list instead of actually going in to view a contact you can swipe their name right to ring them and swipe their name left to message them.
[Galaxy S III General] jonny68:
+1

I too want to know about this.
[Galaxy S III General] runaway64:
Another new feature -well I think it is, I come from a Galaxy S2 and a Galaxy Note..- is the ability to modify the sound EQ for calls.

You can find the setting during a call, but it will tell you to first configure it.

You may go to: Call Settings (from the phone app) -> Additional Settins -> Personalized EQ

You should then plug the earphones and follow instructions

I don't know if it has any noticeable improvement, but I just configured it and I hope it improves call sound, it can always be better!
[Galaxy S III General] yuvas:
Hey Guys!

Just bought my SGSIII yesterday!

I seem to have a problem!

When in the lock screen I am not able to launch the camera when I press and hold the screen and rotate the phone horizontally! Please help!:confused:

Thanks in advance!
[Galaxy S III General] Plexicle:
Do you have that feature enabled in the Motion settings?
[Galaxy S III General] yuvas:
which option under motion?? I don't find anything about about the camera!:confused:
[Galaxy S III General] yuvas:
Here is the screen shot! Please tell me which option.. switched on everything ..still didn't work! :confused:
[Galaxy S III General] Plexicle:
Whoops, sorry. It's not a motion control.

It's under Security -> Lock screen options.
[Galaxy S III General] redder95:
Any ways to bring back notification brightness slider?
[Galaxy S III General] yuvas:
Thanks! found it!:)
[Galaxy S III General] fingery:
Does anybody know if its possible to change the font size in the stock mail app?

I have text size set to tiny in options but mail app seems to stay on large
[Galaxy S III General] Steve Stiffler:
I am unable to take screen shot with swipe gesture it's enabled in motion settings?? :(
[Galaxy S III General] thangbom:
Yeah, me too, although I am at the Home Screen
[Galaxy S III General] Danielfr:
I am using K 9-mail. It is much more userfriendly than the stock mail application and it is free

Daniel
[Galaxy S III General] Steve Stiffler:
Got the swipe gesture to work "You have to swipe your palm across the screen" I was swiping in front of the camera :P :P lolz
[Galaxy S III General] voill:
Yeah that would be great!
[Galaxy S III General] Malman100:
Alternative swype keyboard

hi I kept ge.tting parse error try touchpal in the market plays its just as good and you don't have to deal with Skype who don't appear to be doing anything about the parse error, and how long to you have to have an app in betai can't get by without a swipe keyboard an,d ths ones seems as good hope this helps
[Galaxy S III General] SiggiJarl:
why are you all trying to install swype when you can enable "Continuous input" in the options for the Samsung keyboard, which does the same thing as swype...?
[Galaxy S III General] Franc38:
I haven't received my GS3 yet so I can't be definitive, but it seems that the functionality is not enabled everywhere, and that it's less complete than in actual swype.

Well, we'll see. TouchPal is OK but I definitely didn't like it as much as Swype.
[Galaxy S III General] StarF:
when you install a app it creates a shortcut on your homescreens, is it possbile to turn that off?
[Galaxy S III General] artesea:
setting within the market place for widgets, not sure if it covers the shortcuts too.
[Galaxy S III General] Walhalla:
In the settings of the Play Store is an option to disable the creation of homescreen shortcuts.
[Galaxy S III General] krabman:
That enables swipe but on the samsung keyboard, not the swype keyboard which lets you access a lot of characters from the main board that cant be accessed on the stock sammy board without switching over to symbols. That said the sammy keyboard is actually a little easier to swype on for me as its slightly more spaced out.
[Galaxy S III General] StarF:
thank you both of you :)
[Galaxy S III General] SiggiJarl:
I must be blind... I see the widget option, but where is the shortcut option ?
[Galaxy S III General] Plexicle:
That is the option, it's just poorly worded.
[Galaxy S III General] uf21:
I keep hearing about swype. I'm a first time android user. Why does everyone keep asking for swype. Doesnt the phone already have swype? Cause I got it enabled on my phone through keyboard settings.
[Galaxy S III General] JSale:
Because unfortunately the version of "Swype" that Samsung have installed doesn't allow for Swype entry in all text input boxes :D
[Galaxy S III General] Plexicle:
And it's just not as good. Simple as that.

Anyway, you can find Swype in the application forum.
[Galaxy S III General] uf21:
ah ok i get ya. Well im not to fussed about swype though I did try swiftkey x keyboard an I liked it but i'm worried about how it says something about getting info from input on keyboard. Are these keyboards safe cause I use internet banking and paypal a lot on my phone. I dont want them having my information.
[Galaxy S III General] aquariex24:
I'm still waiting to get it, but in the meantime could you tell me if after you enable the camera to be opened from the lock screen after tilting the phone horizontally, would you be able to access the rest of the phone if you exit the camera app or would it then ask you for a password if you have one? It would appear to be a security flaw if anyone could pick up someone's GSIII, open their camera using this method, and then being able to access their phone outside of the camera.
[Galaxy S III General] jamesbra:
That is why one should never pirate a kb. I've used swift x, swype and slideit and no one has opened any credit cards on my name. There is a good post in the nook color forum where a user traces the traffic from a pirated kb app and it definitely went to sketchy people.
[Galaxy S III General] artesea:
All keyboard apps have the opportunity to capture your keypresses, however if the don't have an internet permission they can't send them off.

Like someone else mentioned, never get a pirated apk, and read the reviews first.
[Galaxy S III General] uf21:
Thank you. Just bought swiftkey x. Much much better than stock keyboard.
[Galaxy S III General] catfis:
On SGS and SGS II there is the possibility to adjust dislay brightness through sliding the notification bar...I'm trying with SGS3 but nothing happend.

The feature was removed?
[Galaxy S III General] beetnubbin:
quick controls in browser

go to settings\labs in browser and check the quick controls box
[Galaxy S III General] redder95:
Samsung developers are strange bunch. One of the best features they thought of, n they want to remove it. They prefer copying n renaming everything. S voice, s beam, Allshare, s memo etc etc
[Galaxy S III General] ozcr:
There are a bunch of Galaxy S3 tips at tricks at http://www.galaxysiiitips.com as well. Saw some there that aren't here.

My fave so far is probably fixing the home button lag.
[Galaxy S III General] crirez:
After I have searched on google for some apps, an add related to my search keeps showing on my notifications all the time. It looks like google play wants me to look at those apps and insist by poping the add on my notifications.

I have seen my girlfriend gets also adds for google play on her Samsung Galaxy S II. Does anybody knows how to stop those tedious adds???
[Galaxy S III General] artesea:
An app you installed is displaying the ads, read the comments for each on the market to find the culprit.
[Galaxy S III General] ozcr:
Double check what you installed just before that started happening. I had that happen on my S2 as well when I first installed Temple Run. I think it must have been some dodgy copy, cuz other games would try installing without me doing anything to encourage them.
[Galaxy S III General] corrsea:
Search XDA for the invisibright app. It achieves the thing by putting an invisible slider on the screen that you access from

the notification screen. Pretty useful of you don't like auto brightness. It can control volume as well.
[Galaxy S III General] webstudiolund:
In the app on the phone, not through computer!
[Galaxy S III General] radeonxt:
for those who want that news ticker sort of like those in the stock exchange,

you can enable it in settings > lock screen ...
[Galaxy S III General] aashish.m:
Hello!

I've just picked up a white S3 and look forward to learning a lot from this forum. I thought that my first post should be productive, so I'm sharing an excellent list.

I came across this post that has a 9 minute video outlining a lot of less known (at least I didn't know) tips and tricks for the S3 and there is also a screenshot based written guide. Since I cannot post links, you'll have to do a little copy/paste to see it.

hxxp://thehandheldblog.com/2012/06/12/galaxy-s3-tips-tricks/
[Galaxy S III General] simollie:
I once had that problem on my Droid X and it was the app Go Keyboard doing it.
[Galaxy S III General] corrsea:
I've just had the same issue. Installed Solitaire from Samsung games and got a notification add telling me how to find singles in my area. Uninstalled the app and the notification disappeared with it. So beware Samsung games.
[Galaxy S III General] akshay_redhat:
I want to set all my contacts to display contact pictures from my facebook accounts display pic....Jst lyk its possible to do in any HTC One X....

I could not change the contact pic to facebook if its using google + image...

I want to set permanently to display all the contacts which i have in my contact book to show me there facebook display pic...
[Galaxy S III General] 10076757:
i dont want yahoo news to be as the ticker, is there a way i can change it to bbc news or sky news etc
[Galaxy S III General] sebarkh:
AMAZING

Now open market, touch the menu button, choose settings and find the appropriate option to swith automatic icons creation on new app install...

:eek:
[Galaxy S III General] redder95:
Lol!

We have so many people jumping from myos n berries n older gen Android that are not accustomed to the new slick ics.

That being said, some apps still create icon on home screen on first launch, not sure how to disable those.
[Galaxy S III General] Ste05:
I presume there's no way to increase the number of accounts you can link to a single contact?? I have no idea why Samsung have limited it to 5!!
[Galaxy S III General] radeonxt:
new users will haver questions that will pop for those minor details, like this one -

what happens to the notification led when you are charging and enabled charging led and there was a missed event like text or call, will it stay lit with red for charging or the blue intermittent on/off for missed events?

it over-rides the led charging and prioritizes the use of the led for missed events.

:D
[Galaxy S III General] ozcr:
Just sync your facebook to existing contacts. Then launch facebook and log in, hit the menu button, go to settings and set your Refresh interval. You'll probably need to keep your facebook logged in.

Some people have reported better synching when they have the facebook widget set up on one of their home screens too.

If any of your contacts don't have the facebook thumbnail, open the contact details, tap the edit button and link it with the facebook contact. From the contact edit screen you can always tap on the facebook tab, tap the thumbnail and tap 'Use this photo'.

hope that helps.
[Galaxy S III General] AndyCr15:
Is it possible to change which apps show in the notification bar when you have headphones plugged in?
[Galaxy S III General] corrsea:
Or download an app such as Facebook contacts sync from playstore which will do the job for you. It also allows you to download better hi resolution images.
[Galaxy S III General] bothfly:
Hey Guys, just got this thing today.

When I pinch the home screen and it shows all my home screens for some reason it also talks and says "Home Screen Edit Page Open" and then talks when I close it, how do I turn that feature OFF??

Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] hboos:
You've got driving mode enabled. Switch it off in the drop down notification bar.

If you have lightflow installed, it may be causing the problem. Disable it in Settibgs > Accessibility
[Galaxy S III General] bothfly:
I figured it out, its an App called Notifier Pro, which works great but is causing this talking thing to go on. If I turn off the app it stops.
[Galaxy S III General] ExTREmE99:
i was looking for this too, probably the thing i loved most about android was this feature!

this has been a feature on every galaxy ive owned? (captivate and S2)

to change screen animations go to settings > developer options > window animation scale/transition animation scale
[Galaxy S III General] currydude:
Just discovered something I've been dreaming of in android:

In full screen apps, if you swipe from the top, the notification bar actually APPEARS! and obviously from this stage, you can access all the toggles and notifications (previously I have to use Bird Bar, which I didn't like very much because you could only access the notifications pulldown but not the bar)

(If you have seen this post in whirlpool.com.au, I am -Peter-)
[Galaxy S III General] radeonxt:
android has always been a haven for those who like the freedom to do almost everything with their phone.

before going to roms, one wants to know what settings are there and under those settings if there are sub-settings.

things like selecting on(green button) or off, the new users won't have any idea that pressing the text like actually goes to its sub-options.

one example of what i mean is settings > wifi those who are new will first notice the on/off button at the right side, won't notice pressing the text wifi on the left side goes inside another option and then on the bottom right an advanced sub-option.

things like on contacts, swipe to right side to call and swipe to left side to text i accidentally discovered on my own in my first android samsung long time ago.

as you can see on recent post, these people who only discovered it now are new to android, it will be overwhelming at first but they will learn along the way like i did. if i remember right, i think a pop-up tutorial about that feature shows when the phone is new and first time you opened contacts. i'm talking about the one with the check button on the bottom that says don't show this again, that mini tutorial many of us ignores because we want to explore the phone right away.hehe

i don't know if that's even on manuals since i don't read them actually if the phone is new. i only read them once i am familiar with the phone, the reason i'd still read is maybe there can things i don't know that may be in there.

now playing with settings and trying to discover what else is there, there is one thing that bugged me and that is in messaging then the keyboard, we all know that that gear icon is for settings and under that settings there is an option to enable handwriting. i was bugged because i've never been able to find any button that would change the samsung keyboard to handwriting board, i was a long time symbian user changing keyboard to handwriting board was easy.

on this one, there's no way for new users to accidentally discover it by accident that in order to change to handwriting mode YOU HAVE TO LONG PRESS THE GEAR ICON AND SELECT THAT PEN ICON.

thanks to astrix of s3forums and to the person that linked that link here.

http://www.s3forums.com/forum/galaxy-s3-general-discussion/266-samsung-galaxy-s3-tips-tricks.html
[Galaxy S III General] naka11:
i am going to give lightflow a go nice tip
[Galaxy S III General] blakamin:
It's a battery hog!
[Galaxy S III General] artesea:
Something I've not seen mentioned elsewhere.

Incoming calls from people not in your phonebook show the location based on the dial code.

So a call from 01635xxxxxx showed Newbury and 01522xxxxxx showed Lincoln. Mobiles and 0800s showed United Kingdom.
[Galaxy S III General] Smartphoner:
Just in case

A lot of people know it already but i just dropped by to give a hint for those who don't know...

A long press on the menu key brings up the google search bar
[Galaxy S III General] ramonguthrie:
Is there any way to get my contacts to display contact pictures from my twitter accounts, any apps?
[Galaxy S III General] corrsea:
Go contracts ex let's you sync contacts with twitter. Not sure if it will grab the pics though.
[Galaxy S III General] Ste05:
Is it possible to increase the number of accounts that can be linked to a contact?
[Galaxy S III General] ozcr:
I haven't found a way but since sometimes they are duplicates or both google contacts, I go into gmail and merge some. no need for multiple google entries for the same person.
[Galaxy S III General] Ste05:
Yeah, that is what I was hoping I wouldn't have to do, it's weird why they'd limit it in this way?? I don't understand why they would. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Whatsapp and you're done, no space for Hotmail, Viber, G+, LinkedIn, Yahoo, etc. etc. etc. it's actually really annoying.
[Galaxy S III General] Tufftoad:
Swype Beta is vastly better, prefer the keyboard by far. On the 'Continous Swipe' you cannot select a word and change it, you can also adjust some of the settings like accuracy vs speed.

This is the main reason why I wish to root.

Apologies if this has already been covered.

---------- Post added at 02:03 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:54 PM ----------

Yes you can, you will obviously have to exit the Camera app but the phone will be fully open.

As for the hold down and rotate phone on lockscreen to quick access the camera...think this is going to cause a lot of people to drop the phone. If you don;t mind losing on app space in the lock screen it's far quicker to just put a shortcut for the camera on the lockscreen.

To change lockscreen options go Menu > Security > Lock screen options > then tap on the shortcuts writing (not the toggle). This will take you to another screen where you can change the shortcuts.
[Galaxy S III General] ozcr:
Anyone still looking for a Swype fix, check this post out. Multiple options, but the last is the best.

http://www.galaxysiiitips.com/index.php/tips-tricks/125-swype-on-your-galaxy-s3
[Galaxy S III General] StuBFrost:
Swype have fixed the installer for the S3 which is what I used to install it on my device.
[Galaxy S III General] ozcr:
Oh damn! that sucks!