yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] diamarisvr:
So everyone may ask here... but me?!... nice...
[Galaxy S III General] Beards:
No...... What the poster was saying was "if you didn't get an answer here, then your best bet would be to try in the Questions & Answers section.

In there you will get a more detailed and busier response.
[Galaxy S III General] Landorin:
Many thanks! I really missed Swype and had no idea it was still there (and this auto correction feature drove me nuts!)

Not sure if this was mentioned yet but I found a setting to use an existing SIP account (sipgate in my case) so you can make calls straight with your S3 via Wifi/3G and optionally even receive calls on the SIP number:

1) click phone symbol (as if you wanted to do a call)

2) press menu -> call settings

3) (at very bottom) internet call settings: Accounts, set up your account here.

Check the first box if you wish to receive calls on your SIP number too (supposed to drain more battery).

4) optional in phone settings menu right below the accounts menu: "Use internet calling" (to set call behavior):

1st option ("for all calls when mobile network available") means from what I noticed it will always use SIP whenever there is an online connection present when you make a call.

2nd option: SIP will only be used if you added an "internet" field in your contact's details, added a phone number there and click that number from your contacts menu.

3rd option: you will be prompted to choose on each call whether to use GSM network or SIP. If no Wifi/3g is present, it will not ask and use GSM automatically.
[Galaxy S III General] fatekills:
Whats the max temp observed on s3? and whats the usual temp u see on ur device?
[Galaxy S III General] shaggydabbydo:
Temps

I've had min 16°C max 41°C, average ~27°C
[Galaxy S III General] fatekills:
Which application did u use to monitor the temp?
[Galaxy S III General] shaggydabbydo:
Battery App

Battery Monitor Widget https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ccc71.bmw&hl=en
[Galaxy S III General] JoshReuben:
+1
[Galaxy S III General] radeonxt:
if you have auto-rotate turned off, an icon below the volume icon on videoplayer will show up. that icon is for rotating the video to landscape and vice versa.

:D

coming from symbian days, removing unused homescreens like at least 2 on the default stock rom will save memory and lessen redraw along with your other tw redraw fix.

talking about homescreen, was it limited to only 7 homescreens allowed? since i can add more than 7 in xxblg1 or it may be because i'm using omega 9.1. anyone from xxBLFB or xxBLG1 confirm this?

tia.
[Galaxy S III General] Storkraft:
1. how to ad a brightness level butten. to the top of message page thing ? quick bar ? what is it called ?

2. how to remove a korean spoken code thing when pinching home screen ? wery enoyoing.

pressing power and home botten at same time takes screen picture.

but i prefer the wrist swipe way.
[Galaxy S III General] brute48:
Has anyone had a issue changing the lock screen back to just swipe to unlock. I set mine to the pattern unlock. Now if I go back into the settings the options to chage it are all "greyed" out so I can't select them. The only thing I can select is the PIN unlock and Password unlock. The face unlock and swipe ect. can't be selcted. I would really like to change this back to swipe only.
[Galaxy S III General] Storkraft:
i have just noticed that when pressing on a page dot. it becomes a slide bar for the home screens. nice
[Galaxy S III General] goughymachine:
Sweet!
[Galaxy S III General] MaddKorben:
When I bought my SGS3, it had a battery drain issue. Yes, I have installed that patch, but yesterday my phone had found an update. I've downloaded and installed it (now my build num is I9300XXBLFB), but battery drain wasn't fixed! Does anybody know, what's wrong with Samsung and are they going to fix it in their stock ROMs?
[Galaxy S III General] radeonxt:
i hope you understood that thread right?

there is no battery drain problem.

the problem resides in the way the system is reporting the battery power consumed. as the poster has said on that link on your post,

its understood that its a miscalculation of power used rather than the actual power usage.

it's sort of just a typo by the coders for reporting power usage for cell standby. i can't remember the exact details that i read about this bug but the devs here said the formula should have been (for example) n x .2 but the code for reporting was n x 2. something along those lines.

and since you said you updated to BLFB, yes they didn't fix that cell standby reporting issue in that version.

i'm using the latest BLG6 then BLG8 and it appears the wrong reporting issue.
[Galaxy S III General] diegocapassi:
so.....to fix......?
[Galaxy S III General] AndyCr15:
Is to not look at it...
[Galaxy S III General] radeonxt:
tis the age of internet. way easier to search for your answers.

:laugh:
[Galaxy S III General] bungknees:
This is the best answer I've seen in a long time regarding the cell standby non issue.

Thanks for the laugh.
[Galaxy S III General] Beards:
Not so much as a tip because it falls under AllShare.... BUT it's something different (and effective) for those to use who have a TV connected to the WiFi you are on:-

Send a video message to your loved one!

E.G. ~ I was in the garage attic to the side of my home and needed to speak with my wife.

Getting out of the attic and garage, then to walk directly to my house, take off my dirty gear before walking in and to find my wife would have been both difficult and time consuming.

I called to my wife but knew she would not hear me.

However, I did know she was watching TV which was connected to our home Wifi system.

So....... I picked up my S3, made a brief video asking her to come out and see me, then using the Video Player App I sent the video DIRECT to the TV.

The look on my wife's face when she came out to me was priceless and I was thoroughly chuffed to bits. :D
[Galaxy S III General] radeonxt:
this is another good "made for humans" commercial they should make.hehe
[Galaxy S III General] The S3 Kid:
Good tips. Thanks. :)
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
What battery drain 99% of battery drain is the user .

Try Better Battery Stats to check on wakelocks .

The link you gave is just a false figure reported not a battery drain .

jje
[Galaxy S III General] craigels:
I downloads better battery stats but to be honest I don't know how to use it can you direct me to what I should be looking for thanks
[Galaxy S III General] Smartphoner:
How to minimize lagging

A thread showing how to speed up ur SGS 3

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1735283

it really differs
[Galaxy S III General] rj_989:
Lock Screen Music Player Controls

You can pull down the notification bar to control the music app from the lock screen.
[Galaxy S III General] alternativ:
Gents, if you pull down the notofocation bar, there are buttons like Wi-Fi, GPS, Sounds, Screen rotation etc, and I would like to ask you, if is it possible to modify somehow, these buttons, cos I would like to have there a button for Flight mode for example. I'm using this function quite often... Thanks.
[Galaxy S III General] Beards:
Only by rooting.

What annoys me though is whenever I slide the bar across it jerks and stutters wildly.
[Galaxy S III General] alternativ:
Maybe I'll try to find some widget on Google Play, something like Power management, which I had on HTC Desire.

Anyway, fortunatelly I don't have an issue with the bar as you described.
[Galaxy S III General] Beards:
If it's a seperate App you are looking for I can recommend Extended Controls.

It has a ton of operates for you to choose from.

Have it installed on my Transformer TF201, Galaxy Note & Galaxy S3.
[Galaxy S III General] alternativ:
Cheers mate, that's exactelly what I'm looking for! Just bought :)
[Galaxy S III General] juliano_q:
Another great app for this (an easier to configure imo) is Notification Toggle, I used both on my old GNexus (I don't feel I need it on the SGS3).

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...MsImRlLmo0dmVsaW4ubm90aWZpY2F0aW9uVG9nZ2xlIl0.
[Galaxy S III General] Cyberdyne systems:
Forgive me if this has been mentioned...but when you are in a txt conversation screen if you move the volume rocker up or down it makes the font size larger or smaller!!
[Galaxy S III General] radeonxt:
you have to set that at stock messaging app > menu button > settings > check the box in "use volume key"
[Galaxy S III General] Beemer533:
This is pretty cool...! I was trying to play around with that (I have a Samsung TV) but I can't see my TV from the S3 (or the S3 from the TV); does allshare have to be over wifi? My S3 is on wifi, but my TV is connected with a LAN cable (same network)....
[Galaxy S III General] Beards:
If your TV is a Smart TV your S3 should pick it up by default without having to action AllShare.

As in the case of my Samsung TV which does have Smart TV I found I didn't have to do anything. Any TV found should bring up the TV transfer icon in the default Video Player program on the S3.

My only difference with your setup is that my Samsung TV is on WiFi. That is probably your issue. The TV is not directly showing.
[Galaxy S III General] alextheguy:
If I wanna copy words/texts, only by clipboard? No any other means? Thanks for your reply.
[Galaxy S III General] abbas_aj:
Turning on Swype Keyboard

1) Press Menu

2) Press Settings

3) Select Language and Input

4) Press the settings icon (the cog) next to “Samsung Keyboard”

5) Tick “Continuous Input”

Please note: this appears to only let you Swype in certain applications and text boxes
[Galaxy S III General] OXINARF:
Just to clarify: it is similar to Swype but it isn't Swype. Swype is much much better.
[Galaxy S III General] Mikey:
Rejecting a call while its coming in by saying "Reject".....saw it on a commercial :D
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
you can get the current Swype beta...just Google it....you have to download the installer first, works very well the current release
[Galaxy S III General] OXINARF:
I know, I use it. And because of that, I said that what comes with Samsung default keyboard isn't the true Swype.
[Galaxy S III General] radeonxt:
and you can answer the call by saying "Answer".

:victory:

another tip, not really fw related but i know will help others who still doesn't know.

ever get annoyed by apps putting shortcuts in all your homescreens?

how to stop that:

1. open google play store

2. menu > settings > uncheck auto-add widgets.

:good:
[Galaxy S III General] cheese2471:
thanks, very helpful and informative!
[Galaxy S III General] Beards:
Clearing Individual Notifications

Although it's an ICS tip it's still worthwhile mentioning it here:-

Scenario..... You have just received a bundle of notifications but you are not really interested in the majority but two are worth looking at later when you have more time.

Prior to ICS the only option to clear any notifications was to select 'Clear'. Trouble with this though is it cleared all of them.

However, under ICS we now have the added option of clearing these notification individually.

What you do is pull down the notification window and scroll down to the list at the bottom.

Next step is to look at your notifications and of those you don't want to keep to look at later you simply place your finger on the notification and swipe right. This then clears away that individual notification.

Do the same for the remaining one's you do not wish to keep.

This acts in the same manner as when you press & hold the centre button and then swipe on a previously run individual program to clear programs from the Running Programs list.
[Galaxy S III General] NicHXP:
This is a really helpful thread, thanks for sharing :)
[Galaxy S III General] Siberian Tiger:
One more cool feature which I don't know if it's already mentioned (search don't work from mobile) is that on radio app you can record your favorite song or whatever :D:D:D
[Galaxy S III General] semantsen:
Very Useful

Thanks, That is avey useful tip, I did not know that!:good:
[Galaxy S III General] JCM800:
And it also produces a lot of gaudy looking colours too, imo anyway

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Thumbs up from me too, very handy, thanks :)

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Thumbs up from me too, very handy, thanks :)

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Good Q, i'm coming from iOS and am finding cut and paste on my S3 a touch confusing myself with the clipboard. Any other ways to cut n paste folks?
[Galaxy S III General] OXINARF:
You don't need to use the clipboard, just long press the "box" that you are writing and a Paste button should appear.
[Galaxy S III General] Zwenk:
in cm its possible that the phone unlocks after zou entered a PIN without pressing the OK button.

is there a way to have this at a stock rom?
[Galaxy S III General] JCM800:
Thanks, just realised that clipboard feature is actually quite handy. :good:
[Galaxy S III General] aegixnova:
-Disable the S Voice double-tap-home shortcut, and the button will be infinitely more responsive.

-Use S Memo to draw pictures, then use the share option to directly Facebook message it to someone you want to gift your art to. Once the picture is drawn, it literally takes two seconds to brighten up somebody's day with pure artistic talent.
[Galaxy S III General] Lennyuk:
For the record I will be consolidating this thread soon (i.e. updating the OP) as well as including a separate section for new features added into the Jellybean rom.
[Galaxy S III General] floyd0815:
Semi transparent lockscreen

Don't know if this is already known but anyway...

I'm using Nova Launcher and there is a problem with the lockscreen wallpaper -> if setting an image to homescreen+lockscreen they don't fit exactly. (homescreen wallpaper is a little bit offset)

So I've found an option to set the lockscreen wallpaper to semi-transparent:

You have to edit a db: (e.g. SQLite editor)

Go to /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db in "system" sheet the value of "lockscreen_wallpaper" must be set to "0" and then reboot.
[Galaxy S III General] winbyte:
why dont you include how to increase the response of the home button by disabling the launch of S voice by double pressing the home key?
[Galaxy S III General] eggman89:
Download Quickpic. Then crop the picture using select and crop the image using Quickpic.

Problem solved.:D:D:good::good::good:
[Galaxy S III General] floyd0815:
THX, but I'm quite happy with it. (seeing the homescreen wallpaper - semi transparent) So I can use the gallery to choose my wallpaper and, because the lockscreen is semi transparent, the quick app icons and clock seem to glow a little. (are brighter...)
[Galaxy S III General] y0ud:
i thought the stock firmware would be much more flexible in the way that it looks/themes etc.

The main sell point for me coming from an iphone was its customisation potential
[Galaxy S III General] Sjaak79:
double tapping doesn't work for me.. triple tap does! :)
[Galaxy S III General] proteus1982:
Touchpal is good alternative for stock keyboard. But after using it for couple of weeks found that it still doesnt predict words and phrases as SwiftKey. So went back to SwiftKey Beta :)
[Galaxy S III General] clezzie:
niceeeeeeee thanks for the heads up :good::good:
[Galaxy S III General] kenyw:
+1 for SwiftKey, I am using SwiftKey 3 (have been for more than a year on previous phones) and love it. The Neon theme is a highlight for me as it not only (roughly) fits the general ICS colouring, but is mostly black which helps power consumption as well :)
[Galaxy S III General] dunatis:
Telephone number format

Hi

Anyone know how the change the tel number format in contact mine is stuck on xxx-xxx-xxxxx - in the UK it is usual to have to format as xxxxx-xxxxxx?
[Galaxy S III General] arghness:
Just install a new launcher, no need for a custom firmware. The launcher is an application that provides the front end interface, there are quite a variety of them, some unusual but many are variants on the default stock launcher (which I still prefer to the Touchwiz one).

You can set the default launcher for your phone which will be called whenever you reboot the phone or press the home button.
[Galaxy S III General] aditya1987:
No app from market is required to make your phone vibrate as for call connection and disconnection.

This feature is in built inside call settings-->calk alerts
[Galaxy S III General] vdsleo:
Thanks for this, really helps.

Thanks for this, really helps.
[Galaxy S III General] kirikou008:
thanks !
[Galaxy S III General] steve75dhd:
Email alerts. Peak/Offpeak times.

Hi, just got my upgrade, previously had a htc desire hd. I am missing a particular feature that was available on my DHD running arhd 6.3.3

In the accounts/sync section there was an option available to set peak/offpeak times for receiving emails, i used to use this feature to set off-peak times to be 10pm through to 8am doing this would mean i wouldn't get emails through the night and no alerts would go off in the night. As far as i can see this is not possible on the GS3, so the only way to avoid it is turn the alerts off altogether (as far as i can see i cant just turn email alerts off either)

Is there a way to do what i want?

I am on a stock vodafone uk rom at the moment, unrooted 4.0.4

Your help is appreciated.

Steve
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
Not yet, no. There is the peak/off-peak option in the JB leaks so it will come with the upgrade, whenever that may be! :)
[Galaxy S III General] steve75dhd:
Cool,thanks for the reply. I'm sure I'll get rooted soon anyway. I never upgraded to ics on my dhd, so I have no idea if that feature was there on the dhd. But I'm glad that it should be coming back in jb.
[Galaxy S III General] kurtyyyyyy:
Thankyou for these!
[Galaxy S III General] laving1977:
Hello,

does anyone know how to change "S Planner (Month)" widget week start day? Currently (by default) it is Sunday but I would like to change it to Monday. It is possible to change it for calendar and planner app but haven't figured out how to change it for widget.

If you have suggestions on any other widget that does all that on stock launcher - that would do as well.
[Galaxy S III General] Digbijoy:
please

which is better,friends?

iphone 5 or s3????
[Galaxy S III General] zoot1:
ROFL...

Seeing that you have quoted Lenny's full post and then asked a completely different and unrelated question..

:D
[Galaxy S III General] pr1vate piles:
Which is better? Surely you pick the phone that suites your needs most? For me S3 all the way, android will always be far superior to any iphone. Far as iphone 5 vs S3 go, look at the specs on paper and you will clearly see which is "better".
[Galaxy S III General] radeonxt:
hehe just found out about this little feature that i found hidden in task manager(hold home button) > task manager > scroll to left to show help tab

in number 4. in the event of excessive battery consumption, restart phone by holding up and power button for 8 seconds.

that made me think why? when the restart option is already shown once you hold the power button and it's much faster, so i thought this could help us on those rare occassions that the phone would hang. saves us the trouble of removing back cover then battery.

hold up+power for 8 seconds = restart phone

another one we know is home+power = screenshot but i know everyone loves the swipe screen with side of palm than that one. :)
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
I have been holding the power button, no up (I don't do ups - John Pinette).
[Galaxy S III General] laving1977:
Solved with todays update :)
[Galaxy S III General] Beards:
What update?
[Galaxy S III General] OnceAMatrixMan:
Stock email? Corporate mail? Sure you can do that. Start mail, settings, select corporate account, scroll down to sync schedule. Exchange mail only, not POP.
[Galaxy S III General] akosidota:
thanks for this :) I'm new to android and this is useful to me
[Galaxy S III General] braudrist:
Did they remove the feature in Jelly Bean where you can press Home 3 times quickly and then you would get negative colors? Does anyone know?
[Galaxy S III General] Siberian Tiger:
This is a feature of siyah kernel if I'm not wrong. And I don't know if works on latest beta.
[Galaxy S III General] diegocapassi:
Hy man..maybe wrong place to ask but I'm looking to codec pack let me visualize all or more kind of files...

I don't want to download a player and his codec...I just wish for codec..

Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] jetpack101:
Can anyone tell me what the point of negative colour's is???
[Galaxy S III General] eddie0uk:
I have not seen this tip in the OP so:

While in the app drawer you can pinch the screen (two fingers) in order to see all the panels and move quickly to it (works as well for the widgets). See attached pic.

I discovered this by chance so I don't think it is so obvious.
[Galaxy S III General] ohyesman:
Saving battery power. Black screen uses little to no power, white a lot more power. Idea is invert whilst browsing as alot of the screens browing have white backgrounds etc.

Can't see the point of it myself, but suppose if you browse alot on your phone and you get another hour by doing this then there is a point lol
[Galaxy S III General] Journyman16:
With mine, changing the Start day for S-Planner app also changes it for the widget. Not sure if it is the version of JB - seems to be an App function. Try opening the app and make the change then see if the widget changes.

I'm on Wanam 3.6 with Siyah 1.6 kernel.
[Galaxy S III General] henrylhp:
One of it... :cool:
[Galaxy S III General] rz32:
You are right, 4 pushes of home button can activate negative mode, it's also can be disabled in st(ex)tweaks.
[Galaxy S III General] debortoli:
Hum Doesn't work on JB
[Galaxy S III General] stefankorun:
My opinion is that this doesn't have to be a sticky if the only tricks are very easy to find. Please add more to the first thread so it will be much more helpful.
[Galaxy S III General] hanifh:
to remove home button lag follow this gem of a tip! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGY3Kp9xga4&list=PL8703E9D334D090AB&index=3&feature=plpp_video
[Galaxy S III General] KM7:
Thanks for the tips
[Galaxy S III General] Kremata:
Interesting.
[Galaxy S III General] c-dric:
Hi,

does somebody here knows how to re-enable 3G 'Software update' in a the XXBLH3 rom ?

before, there was a 'Wi-Fi only button' to check or not and now it's gone... and it's only Wi-Fi...

Thanks in advance !
[Galaxy S III General] asc366:
Sorting the appdrawer alphabetically is really nice, thanks for that tip :)

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I think that works like that when you disable the "use wifi" on the 3rd screen
[Galaxy S III General] c-dric:
thanks for your answer. but in the last rom there is no more the "use wifi" line... that's the problem...
[Galaxy S III General] wcharon:
Is there a possibility to create a Folder and change the default icon????

I have tried Icon Changer and also Desktop Vizualizer without sucess.

Thanks in advance...
[Galaxy S III General] ebonie3000:
great work around, I also use the assistive light as a flashlight. I put the widget on one of the home screens. I didn't like any of the ones in the market (and there are tons) I was just looking for a basic flashlight and the assistive widgets work perfect. (I miss the HTC flashlight)
[Galaxy S III General] Skeeve245:
Close Folder on home screen automatically

Sorry for this stupid question but I searched the internet, the site and this forum for at least thirty minutes (in this order :D).

I assembled some applications on the home screen in folders which is a quite nice feature. Now when open one folder and start an app from the folder the folder shall close automatically. Right now it stays open. How do I do this?

Regards

Stefan