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[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Jaskwith:
Yea well everytime I opened music player i did it through the widget which never lets you go anywhere else....else it just backs out of the widget...but i see your picture so I opened the music player app and now I can see all that shti you are talking about...so I will rephrase. "The music player widget blows ass"
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] chilipalm:
Yeah the stock music player sux. Try Poweramp (trial then pay) or Mortplayer (free).
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Blitzpwnage:
Mine keeps telling me when I roam that I have lost data connectivity....every single

Time then I have to clear the notification...
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] eyecon82:
I am getting that as well
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] madlaw1071:
Bluetooth profile sucks _ss. Can't stay connected as phone and audio on either my 2010 GTI or 2012 Maxima. It's one or the other.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] mhtruth:
It may also be the setting> display> uncheck "auto adjust screen tone":good:
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] mhtruth:
Really?

Did you try entering the music app by the actual music app? or hitting the back button (next to the physical home button). I really like this stock music player...it looks good and functions really well compared to the one on the s2.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] knightblaze:
Given I like TouchSounds when clicking around the screen someone hosted a ui.zip file from a Windows 7 phone. I replaced the water drop sound(ANNOYING) with the effect_tick.ogg file.

Ensure you turn off the option for sounds when touching the screen. Make sure you have root and read/write access to the file system.

have to copies of Effect_Tick.ogg (different folders) and rename one to TW_Touch.ogg and the other to S_HW_Touch.ogg and drop em in the system/media/audio/ui folder.

Once done, toggle the option in settings for touch sounds and get a better sound for clickage.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] ikjadoon:
Where is Google's little clear all text button? I can still tap it, but the icon is missing!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] SuPaKiLaMaGiLa:
Hi can anyone recommend a good replacement launcher I dint much like touch wiz either
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Visionikz03:
Touchwiz has been freezing up on me nd im not even rooted... i just installed Apex

Sent from the Apple despised Galaxy in Long Term Evolution!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] RaymondPJR:
Lol!

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I ditched Touchwiz launcher for Apex also.

EDIT: I'm hoping someone in here has an answer for this one. I can't mute all sounds! Muting does not mute the notifications! I was at T-Mob today and had three people trying to figure out how to totally mute all sounds to no avail. All missed calls, Email and Gmail notifications still get through when mute is enabled. Any ideas? Also trying to invert the background to black or blue for the Email app will only change a small part near the header. Changing text color works fine. You can change text color to white and have your emails vanish (did this accidentally somehow and took a day to figure out what happened, lol). This leads me to believe this is a true glitch in how it was intended to work otherwise why have the ability to change font color to white without any contrasting background? Anybody else experiencing the same.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] SamsungVibrant:
Surprise me with a software setting.

I'm about to completely return the Galaxy S3 for good. I've been searching a couple days now for a solution and no luck. I'm on my second S3, and both units are completely unusable with the included headphones. Nobody can clearly hear me during a voice call, and I can barely hear them. It sounds like wind is blowing into the microphone, complete crackily static. Yes, I have pushed the headphone jack completely down into the slot.

Could there be some kind of software setting I'm missing that is causing this issue? Hoping to find a solution by tomorrow :(
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] swindillon:
anyone else having any over heating issues? my SGS3 gets really hot from time to time. I had to install CPU sleeper in hopes to keep it from over heating and it seems to be working so far.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] lviv73:
You tried the fix posted on here?Mine got hot once or twice at firs but not any more.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] lexluthor:
I have 2 annoyances (bugs).

1. Doesn't allow 3rd party apps to read the orientation sensor when auto rotate is off. Try turning auto rotate off, watch a video on youtube and then turn the phone sideways. Video won't flip to horizontal. All other phones do.

2. Non-standard notification light color mappings.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] dohturdima:
Weak radio signal. TBH, it plagues all Sammy phones. However, was expecting that VZW SIII would work better than a 2+ year Droid II when it came to reception. The opposite is the case, sadly.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] madlaw1071:
Gotta be a Verizon thing. My GS 3 has a death grip om AT&Ts signal and never lets go. Way better than my 4s.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] catogtp:
messaging>settings>delete old message (uncheck this and the sound cutting off will stop)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] jmorton10:
Unfortunately, that is still true.

My old Rezounds have a MUCH better radio than the newer GSlll
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] mc-fine:
Samsung keyboard sucks. I just assumed it would be using Swype coming from the Samsung Epic. Not all swype to type keyboards are created equal that's for sure. The suggestions that it comes up with are so incredibly far away from anything near the sequence of letters touched.

Thank goodness for Swype beta. So much better now I am rid of that Samsung keyboard.

No issues with wifi or cellular signal for me. So far its all butter.

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I have noticed that recently. Not quite sure what the sensor is seeing that is triggering the dimming of the screen.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] skillzo1:
A few things im really hating....

The biggest is the keyboard....omg i cant type one word right. It horrable. I miss my htc keyboard.

Having to scroll all the up on a web page to get to the web browser bar. Htc as soon as you scroll it pulls it down and dissappears when you stop scrolling after a few seconds.

If you see a picture of something on the web...it seems like you have to dl it first then send to a friend. There should be an option to just send it without dling the pic first.

Signal is terrable.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tonysunshine:
to be honest the only annoying thing I've found is the lack of a dedicated capacitive search button. on the GS2 I used it as a sms quick compose trigger and it was really useful for sending texts while inside an app. Really missing that button...
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Didimus84:
Yeah my biggest gripe is the keyboard. It handles long words just fine, as it should. But short words (ie, got, her, lot, are, see, was, his, but, for... etc etc) almost always fail and the suggestions are SO FAR from what I was trying to type it makes me wonder who the drop-out is that coded this thing?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] bytes2bits:
This was in response to those having frequent wifi drops.

I've found on past phones that I need to have my routers ip lease time set to something other than forever (2 weeks for example). This solved my wifi issues especially with Belkin routers. Worth a try.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] xxmelissaxx:
Long press the menu button.. Works as a search button :D
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] prenedo:
Do you have link to post/thread? Is it in general section or sub section? Mine gets pretty hot from moderate usage which I have been questioning as well
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] KreepyKen:
My AT&T one has fantastic signal strength. Far better than my Captivate.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] kayakyakr:
How strange. I haven't seen that in any of the 3 factory resets I've done so far. That is one that I empathize with you about.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] washjayb:
Where are the display mode settings?

I tried settings>Display but see no option.

No standard ringtone? Really?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] thearch1tect:
For some reason while im on wifi at home my phone will tell me I've lost data connectivity .. Weirdest thing. Just started happening today. Anyone experience something similar?

Still stock.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] smark72:
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[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] smark72:
Did you turn off auto brightness and then slide your finger across the drop down menu to see if it changes?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] cbond007:
How do you set Google voice as the default voice mail?

Sent from my Galaxy SIII
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] randy2:
Havent been with Samsung since sph-a460 and sph-n400

I hate hate hate touch wiz, So i got a GS3 which is only 1 day old but I have to admit touchwiz sucks major touch azz, the phone is nice tho but I do miss sense and this GS3 feels plasticy but it has to grow on me. Its too thin and too light. I Like phones with weight and a good feel some may say they like those features but Im use to HTC build feel. So now im with the dark side SAMSUNG but I just wish I could have sense with this phone asap. I rather have stock google than touch azz. But I will never complain about sense again and its laggyness but I dont miss it enough to go to the evo4lte. I need a break from htc but I dont know how long its going to be. I hope the new note competitor they are building is nice. Dont want to end on a down note the GS3 is a good phon,e I just got to get used to it.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] gr33nd3vil:
I feel your pain on the ringtone i had to settle for some jungle **** till i find a mp3
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] jdelano:
These will help you.

http://www.google.com/googlevoice/sprint/

Google Voice on Sprint FAQs

http://support.google.com/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1205636
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] ZiggSVO:
Number 3 you can fix by going into settings/display/touch key light duration.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] jfenton57:
It's kind of funny reading all of the whining in this thread.

Did any of you study up on this phone before ordering it?

A friend *****ed all day yesterday that he prefers Sense.....yet he always used either Launcher Pro or Go Launcher all the time. Couldn't have liked it that much :)

I think some folks are just never happy.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] CapsLockKey:
Is anyone having issues with the outbound call quality? My friend called me last night from his new SGS3 (partially to rub it in he got his) and he sounded pretty muffled. Possible he could have been on speaker phone but I didn't ask.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] El Nivek:
Personally the screen is too dim for me in the sunlight. Other than that the phone is top notch.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] kayakyakr:
Mostly the idea is things that can be fixed that the complainer is just missing. There are some things that are of the sort where the answer is, "well... yeah?" But a lot of things posted are annoyances with workarounds/fixes.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] coldblooded79:
My major annoyance is that I don't own an GSIII yet. Got rid of my epic touch before the bottom fell out. Now I have a Samsung Conquer that is surprisingly good for a cheap phone sans the 3.5 inch low resolution screen. Lol
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] wpjessie:
I felt the same. But I just use the back button, makes me feel like I'm actually exiting am app anyway. Only use the home button for recent apps.

Sent from my SPH-L710
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] MrTonyToca:
Anybody else having a problem with the text message notification sound? the sound doesnt play the whole ring tone noise and just cuts off almost immediately after it starts, I thought it was from the mute/pause motion and it being in my case but i turned all of that off and it still does it even out the case....im using the default notification noise and havent rooted or nothing like that....kind of strange
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] danipoak:
Install nova or apex launcher. It will give you a semi ICS experience until custom roms. Come out. I hate touch wiz as well. Once the devs get CM9 and AOKP rolling youll love the phone. The devs kick ass.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] nabbed:
You hate hate hate touchwiz 4? It's way better than sense4 - sense4 is a bloated and laggy pos.

It's too thin and light? Is that the best you can do?:victory:
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] danipoak:
They both suck equally.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] eyecon82:
the stupid standard message ringtone...the whistling sound...ugh!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] jfenton57:
Why complain about a message ringtone when you can change it in seconds?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Eye4thesky:
Lock screen wakes on every text

Drives me nuts. Listen to Pandora and have this beast in my pocket but everytime I get a text my lock screen wakes up and my cord or pen hits the screen and I feel like Im listening to a dripping faucet until I turn screen off with power button. Im sure there is an option for this. Just cant find it. Help anyone? Love the phone though.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] kayakyakr:
Doesn't look like you can in the default app. I've installed Pansi SMS and you can modify if the screen comes on or not in that.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] hayabusa1300cc:
Wow, this must be the biggest newb thread yet. All you first time android users:

Install a launcher from market

Install ringdroid and make your own ringtones

Change your messaging tone to something else.. or push ICS tones to your device (if you even know how to root)

Turn off tap, screen, lock sounds under menu settings/sound

The power button wakes up the device, and also puts it into standby mode when pressed again

Did I miss anything?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] rgregg504:
Haven't found one thing yet that annoys me.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] HotInEER:
I have been playing with my wifes phone, and she get's this all the times. Drives us crazy, seems to only happen when she is on wi-fi. I have been all through the settings with data roaming and nothing works.

Not rooted either.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Skunk Ape1:
Already fixed my issue with the nature themed ring & notification tones. Pulled all of the tones out of my nexus s4g and put them on my gs3. :D

1. Seems to have issues with both my back up apps not restoring the data correctly. I'm thinking it has to do with the file system change between the nexus s and the gs3. This may correct itself when I restore backups made on this phone rather than restoring from backups made on my nexus.

2. Go sms pattern lock no longer works. It only works the 1st time after rebooting phone or if entering the app from the notification bar after receiving a new message. If I open the gosms through the app drawer or shortcut, it bypasses the security settings. This is probably something that needs to be fixed with gosms.

3. While I am very happy with the way the screen looks, I would have liked to check out the different screen saturation settings that they had on the international version but removed from the sprint version.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] dragonforce11:
I'm having an issue with my camcorder, where when I'm filming, it will keep refocusing, even if I am just filming a still object. It happens off and on, and will get blurry before focusing again, then repeat. It is really annoying and I can't find anywhere how to fix it. Anyone have a similar issue?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] worldwidepmp:
Yes, my camera app is doing that, but the pics are still coming out nice.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] javadreams:
Appdrawer -> Menu button -> View Type -> Alphabetical grid
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] eyecon82:
im annoyed by the sound the phone makes when dialing a call...that tone makes it sound like the call hung up and didn't go through..it needs to be more welcoming
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] cbond007:
This should be called the nit-pick or OCD Thread,

Sent from my Galaxy SIII
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] matrixzone5:
You cant take a pic while ur in a call

This literally annoys the crap out of me anybody know of a work around?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] lopezpm:
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[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] eyecon82:
agreed...my epic 4g touch also did that
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] kayakyakr:
Some are, some are not. Let's try to stick with the ones that are not.

Haven't tried... can you launch other apps while on a call?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] jfenton57:
Glad you noted that the Sprint version doesn't have the screen saturation settings...I thought I simply was brain cramping and unable to find them.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] coreyzw:
Yeah, both my wife and I have that issue. We played with the EQ settings and it sounds better to us, but still slightly muffled.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] wscaddie56:
standard ringtones are clearly not natural ;)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] worldwidepmp:
Well played...
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] wscaddie56:
just trolling while i await my vz model to ship 7-10

seems like there aren't major defects out of the box
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] worldwidepmp:
None that I can notice so far.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] jameswerk:
Try: Phone app<menu<call settings<call alert<call status tones<call connect tone<uncheck
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Janis:
I sort of expected some sort of fun with geocaching or somesuch, or a bird ID app or something. The nature thing is pretty uninspired. I can't figure out why they did the water-drop unlock screen and no live wallpaper to go with it. I would also like to have seen a nine-drop pattern unlock. I mean, the animation is here, just duplicate it. All in all, I felt like the nature theme wasn't fully thought out nor fleshed out, except for one thing*. Yeah, including the ringtones. Maybe before I go the CM9-derivative route I'll gt out and record some birds, a rainstorm, and the stream down the street. It seems as though Samsung could have had a company contest and gotten all their ringtones (he who recorded it names it) for free & fun all around. Guess not.

*Here's a catch 22 I'm dealing with. I'm a screen-protector/case fanatic. I'm hard on my gadgets, and when I don't cover them, it shows. I absolutely adore the feel of SwipePad with the curved edge of the screen - it's a gorgeous meniscus , and it flows so nicely from the edge. A case will kill that.

Mine doesn't brighten up using the notification bar, either. There are several other CM9 features I have on my old Vibrant like that which I miss, too. I kinda thought now that Steve Kondik is with Samsung they'd do more of those. Meh, it's temporary.

I'm not sure how I feel about the relatively low volume rocker. It seems more ergonomic, but I for now I'm having to engage my brain to hit vol down instead of vol up. Anyone else?

I, too, amn't liking how the screen sort of rides the middle of the brightness scale. I feel like they got pretty hung up on trying some things too see of a screen would last, and they used the S3 as a guinea pig. I'm hoping I can get the two years out of it and still go both dimmer and brighter with it without killing it - for some reason, I don't think it's entirely limited by the hardware. I guess I'll find out.

BTW, there's a setting that changes the time that the softkeys stay on after you touch the screen. The 1.5 sec setting does get pretty annoying, and doesn't make a ton of sense.

I'm tired of blue.

The number of variants might a well have made this 12 different phones. I was really hoping for some unified efforts at development, and although there will be some overlap, the dev side of things won't match what the prolification of the brand might suggest.

I know I have a ton of apps, and many of them have services attached, but my gapps is already force closing. I mean, why the heck do I have 2gb RAM and 12gb space? To run 3 apps?

I love reading how things are never quite good enough.

EDIT: my Tmo dialer/history shows the Google Voice bridge number instead of the number of the contact. It's Tmo, not Samsung, but it's a huge PITA.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] eyecon82:
when you open the phone app, favorites is 2nd from right...once you click it, it's on the far right...it isn't consistent and is throwing me off
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] siirus09:
1. I HATE the stock keyboard! Its really annoying having it start to guess what word Im trying to type and confuse me on whether or not I accidentally typed in the wrong letter(s) or not. Changed it with another one.

2. I cant change the brightness with the notification bar anymore!!! ARGH

Other than that, I love the phone.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Beastn:
For the first two days my phone worked fine. Now my Wi-Fi only picks up certain networks and not all Bluetooth devices are supported. No one can hear me while on my Motorola Infiniti if I have the phone on my waist. If I hold it up by my chest it's perfect. That defeats the purpose of Bluetooth. I think the Bluetooth 4.0 devices are having problems. I have an Evo Lte and it connects to all my Bluetooth devices but it most definitely doesn't allow me to move around a room. Anyone experiencing this?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] wildgamer100:
Screen on when receiving text messages is pretty annoying. I don't understand why they wouldn't add an option to disable it.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] ECrispy:
This is Samsung's fault. iPhone also has double click home to start Siri, but pressing home has no lag.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] mikea3000:
i have this same exact issue, quite annoing. Also, when i set a custom notification for calendar reminders, it always goes back to the default

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"the dialer screen after a phone call bringing up that contract screen is annoying" i agree i wish this could be turned off
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] NA 521":
Sorry if this has been mentioned already, but i hate the thick, hazy blue fog that i see in the screen when im outside in the sun. Whats that all about? I do not have a screen protector on at the moment...
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] gtuansdiamm:
My complaint is hat the name is just samsung galaxy s 3

I've been hating on their naming sense for so long but I ended up looking forward to whatever ridiculous name samsung come up with
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] themuffinman:
LOL, how about Samsung Galaxy S3 Epic Touch 2 HD 4g LTE?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] TheWyzeMan:
Only problems so far:

Screen turning on when text message is received.

Volume rocker rattles.

Stock keyboard is the most vile keyboard I've ever used.

Back soft key is very noticeably brighter than menu soft key.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] katamari201:
Always failed to see why people can hate touchwiz so much that it sounds like they are getting a root canal every time they use their phone. I've used iOS to Bada to Sense to TouchWiz to whatever Motorola calls their thing to Pantech, etc. It's a freakin grid of icons. You can swipe through pages, or scroll through them. Tap what you want, and it launches. That's it. That's ALL it is. The swiping direction may change, the colors or bars or transitions and aesthetics may change, but its still as basic as it gets. Honestly I think people who complain about this and go to great lengths to denigrate something so frivolous, only to champion something else that looks exactly the same and does the same thing, are ridiculous.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] worldwidepmp:
What he said.