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[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] LNJ:
Good to know. People get worked up about it but probably wouldn't even notice.

Plus the 720p resolution alone is worth the upgrade pentile or not!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] CZ Eddie:
This wasn't directed at me, but I too hate the center button.

I just don't like having to push down to "click" it to make it do things.

Vs. with the capacitive button, you just tap that.

I would have preferred the center button be raised AND capacitive.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] acPIZZA:
Love the center button. Hopefully you will get used to it. It is nice having another there way to wake the device without shuffling it around in your hand to reach the power button.

It's not that reaching for the power isbhard (my hands are large) I just appreciate the proximity when I am driving and need to use the phone.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] nativestranger:
I have the international gs3 and that page do load up completely and scrolls smoothly up and down. But the gifs don't play smoothly but stutters. When I scroll, the new ones that come into view doesn't play until after a second or so. After viewing that page four a while my browser quits and home screen redraws.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] modest_mandroid:
Good lord, 5 pages of text and not one person knows how Android handles RAM or whether 2gb actually makes a difference over 1gb.

Android attempts to fit as much stuff into RAM as possible. The more crap it can fit in ram, the better, and it attempts to leave as much of it there as possible. Why? Because moving data to the CPU from RAM is a **** ton (seriously, about 1000x) faster than moving data from permanent storage (flashrom). If, for whatever reason Android feels like it is out of ram (amount of available ram < whatever minfree is set to), it will start to kill off applications that are inactive in order of oldest->most recently used. If it STILL needs more memory, it will begin to kill off background services, and then finally the foreground application.

Secondly, mobile GPU chipsets typically do not have discrete memory. I'm not familiar with the Adreno 225, but I'd put damn good money on that it uses regular RAM store frame buffers, depth and color buffer information, and all the other things GPU's typically need memory for.

So, does 2gb matter? Depends - if you have just three apps that you regularly use, chances are pretty high that you won't see a difference between a devices that has 256mb, 1gb or 2gb. If you have a ton of apps or your apps use a lot of ram, you will notice a difference in load times when you move from app to app, as large apps will not have to reloaded from storage as frequently. In short, it depends on your usage - some heavy users will see a difference, most will not.

Will 2gb of ram make the OS snappier (swiping between desktop panes)? No. Not unless your **** is insane and constantly reading to and from storage for some reason, and in that case you probably have bigger things to worry about.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] CZ Eddie:
Thanks for the input. :)

But I'm getting annoyed with people telling me I don't know what I'm talking about.

Please, show me where I've made a false statement.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] americasteam:
Gee whiz!!!!!!!!!!! I guess we just look like a bunch of idiots don't we! lol Some of us do indeed know how ram is handled. If you come from a One X, you will see a huge performance increase in multitasking on the S3. Doesn't matter if you're a power user or not. The multitasking on the One X is pathetic as it should have more ram. Software optimization will only get you so far.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] modest_mandroid:
You didn't, I just made a blanket statement because I'm an ass like that. Mostly just expressing my facepalmy frustration at people that keep using goofy benchmarks for performance like how smoothly the phone pans through the different home screens and attributing that to ram or some other completely arbitrary thing. Every one of these threads invariably devolves into a ****storm of anecdotal evidence being thrown about. Just got tired of seeing it, both here, in the international GS3 forum, and in the One X forum.

---------- Post added at 10:51 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:48 PM ----------

I didn't mention the One X specifically because multi-tasking on that device is "unique". To my understanding, the problems that device suffers from aren't so much related to how much total ram the device has as HTC's ultra aggressive memory management policies.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] americasteam:
I agree that it's unique. I am a firm believer that the ultra aggressive memory management is directly due to cost per unit. I think they knew the device would have trouble running stable on 1gb of ram so they intentionally crippled the multitasking to prevent the addtional cost of adding ram. In reality, most consumers probably would just think that's how it's supposed to work. I guess they figured, no harm no foul. lol
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] modest_mandroid:
Why do you think it requires more ram?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] hung2900:
Because Snapdragon S4 needs more RAM, at least 1.5GB to work well, ok?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] modest_mandroid:
Hah! Indeed :p

All that post needed was a pair of shades and a "deal with it" caption.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] americasteam:
When closing all apps you have ~250mb free on the One X. In my opinion, that's getting pretty slim. With the S3 right now, I am using .92gb of the available 1.62gb of ram. I have numerous apps that are open in the background and can switch to any of them without reloading. This is how Android should function. I shouldn't be in the middle of writing a text, get a call, go back to the text when my call has ended just to see the app has completely restarted. Samsung did the right thing by taking the hit in cost per unit to make their device function properly.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] modest_mandroid:
Odd.. Didn't think Sense was that much of a memory hog. But, 250mb should still be sufficient for most things considering ICS runs fine on older devices with 384mb. Out of curiosity, how much does the One X typically use after you've launched a few apps?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] cproaudio:
GSMArena did a great comparison between the One X and S3 but I think it's the international version though. http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s_iii_vs_htc_one_x-review-759.php
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] hung2900:
I think you forget a thing. Just imagine: Now you have .92gb free RAM with 2GB (1.62 after sharing the ram with GPU and system), so how your free RAM will be if the phone has 1GB ram only in total?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tx3kgtman:
250mb free??? Please don't throw out numbers like that.

Edit: Well tapatalk is acting up and not uploading my SS but with all apps closed I'm getting 361 free. The amount of ram isn't the problem with the one X though. Throw 2 gb of ram into the one X and it will still kill off apps like it currently does. Its how HTC intended it and thats on them.

For example: Im on google news reading an article. I hit the home button and jump over to my tapatalk app to check a thread. I then head over to task manager and check my memory free and its at 268mb free which is PLENTY to still have the browser page opened. I head back to my news article and low and behold it refreshes. This is not a huge problem for me but I can see how it can be a HUGE problem for others. I just hope some of our talented developers can fix this when the source releases.

Im defiantly not bashing the fact of having two gigs of ram. I would love to have it on the one x just to have it. Just saying the ammount of ram isnt the problem with the HOX.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] davidstech11:
My reason for keeping the GS3 over the One X was for a few reasons. The ability to add all kinds of storage was a big plus for me. The other was not as big but I like having a removable battery. I also would take 2GB RAM over 1GB RAM. The pros of the One X did not overcome the pros of the GS3 for me.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] americasteam:
Well, we could go on for weeks with this. This my last post on ram to get this thread back on topic. My apologies on the free ram. Was going off memory. Just closed all apps on the One X and had ~330mb free. I'm not bashing the One X at all, but there is reason HTC has programmed the memory management the way they have. They didn't cripple it because they wanted a better user experience, but because they had no choice with the hardware available.

These are just my opinions though. One thing I can say, we have never had such good devices to choose from! :)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] CZ Eddie:
Hah, I didn't know that. Now I like it a little better. :)

Thanks for letting us know. What you described is very similar/same as what I was getting with the One X and Skyrocket. Even when the Skyrocket was overclocked to 1.7ghz and running various custom ROM's.

Sounds like the CM9 ROM for the international SIII really helps with performance, judging from the other guy's post.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] guirae:
any devs getting on this? (dumb question but i'm curious who's getting on it)

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/06/21/samsung-releases-source-code-for-sprint-galaxy-s-iii/
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] bmoreboy02:
Well today i sold my epic for an evo3d and some cash. Im another victim of the bestbuy preorder fiasco but kept my commitment to my buddy to sell him my phone. Well wile we were swapping esns the phones were having a really hard time connecting to sprints towers once they were taken off the network. Everything went fine we could call out on the phones and text but the prls wouldnt update. He switched me to a tech who once he saw i was calling from baltimore told me "man its gona take a while to get your update im seeing here that there is major work going on with the baltimore towers right now" i said what kind of work not even thinkin bout lte but pissed bout no data connection on my phone. He thes said "well there not as far along as expected with the lte launch in baltimore so sprint pulled 100s of techs from the mid atlantic region and has them in baltimore working right now"
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] boomerbubba:
FYI, here is a fairly recent (if unofficial) peek at the Baltimore schedule for the LTE rollout.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] bmoreboy02:
Lookin good for us
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] lballer69:
http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/212-network-visionlte-deployment-running-list/
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] lovell88:
So I just recently purchased a Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket and I am trying to root it.

While using Skyrocket-easy-root, I get the program that you see in the attached image. Other methods give me a similar issue. So I am stuck and I need some help.

Here is what I have done so far for troubleshooting as I have researched:

- I have made sure that I am in debugging more.

- I have uninstalled and reinstalled the samsung driver (1.3.2200.0)

- I have removed the old ADB drivers from the system (when I used to own a Nexus)

- I have tried all USB ports and different cables.

- I have access root.bat for cmd as admin

None of these seem to work. Do you guys have any ideas?

Thanks ahead of time!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Jnewell05:
If it won't boot then you will have to flash stock tar with Odin.

Then use a different method to root. I haven't had any luck with one click or any other way.

I used touch cwm. Uses Odin to install then get the super user flash able through cwm. All threads that include theses files are stickied. Sorry not going to be at a computer for a while so not going to bother with links.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] Abufom:
Hi estimated community.

I wanted to know if i can apply the Overclock to 900 Mhz over the installed Merruk Technology Kernel Pre 2.0

I tought Merruk Kernel would overclock my phone to 1024 Mhz cause i see a picture of CPU Master showing it, but then realize than this actually dont do that, and stay in 832 Mhz.

Thats why i would like to know if i can do this overclock to 900 Mhz over the Merruk Kernel, it is compatible? Would it work good?

Ill be thanksfull with your answers

By the way, i dont think it cares cause it says its compatible with all roms, but im using ChobitsDigitalis v2 Reloaded.

this is the overclock im meaning http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1629348

should i do it or keep it like it is... mmm
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] deathviper:
both are buggy
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] Abufom:
thank, guess better let it like it is... Anyway, i haven't see bugs in Merruk Kernel... just not the 1 ghz overclock...
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] irfanbagus:
that's merruk 'bug'. nothing other 312mhz and 832mhz works. not 1ghz, not 900mhz. the reason why 900mhz (or 1ghz, i forgot) lag is not because instability like people's say. the reason is because cpu always working on 312mhz (but in display it's still show 900mhz/1ghz).
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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] retfeg:
I have a Samsung S phone.

I am running Cyanogen Mod-7.1.0-NS and Trinity Kernel 1.44Ghz OC version: 2.6.35.14-KalimochoAz-01678-g131e51ekalimochoaz@KalimochoAz-HPUbuntu #4

The phone freezes at least once a day and the only way to get it back to life is to take out the battery.

Can someone tell me what is causing it and whether I should get a different kernel or ROM on this phone?

Is there a better Kernel to go with this ROM?

Please help!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hassanalip21:
you know what , i think it is due to the kernel cause as you said it is 1.44 Ghz while the default is 1000 only !!!!!!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] retfeg:
Should I change the settings back to 1000 then?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ajoslaf:
OMG yes... why are you even using it overclocked? It's just slowly destroying your phone and drains your battery.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ishangoyal:
I also think that the freeze is due to excessive overclocking... I would suggest the default 1000 but if you really wanna overclock.. take it to max 1200 .. and if you really wanna overclock to 1400 then do some undervolting too
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erpurohit:
the oc will only gives you better shoes in bench mark your phone can run very smoothly with oc also.

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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slaphead20:
You really shouldn't be overclocking if you haven't done your research and understood what you are doing and its consequences.there is loads of information out there, search. Ask yourself this....will I be upset if I fry my phone?

Sent from the gutter, gazing at the stars
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jstgabytz:
I think you should move to another rom and overclock to maximum 1200 if you desperatly want to overclock, but to be onest...it doesn't help you at all
[HTC One X] colobos:
Don't know if this been posted before but great app for streaming high quality UK freeview channels was a lot better then I expected

http://www.tvcatchup.com/android.html

from my HTC One X using XDA
[HTC One X] colobos:
Also has great pause functions definitely worth a download if you have no tv in you bed room was playing around with it last night very fast great quality seems to run better then streaming from my laptop
[HTC One X] techenthusiast:
Thanks for the heads-up, this app works great!
[HTC One X] Zipperface:
Used to use the TVCatchup website, but it was pretty crap on my One X.

Glad when i found out about this app, it's SO much better now.
[HTC One X] crazy88:
Just tried this, and very impressed. Thanks mate!
[HTC One X] eddyedwards007:
Colobos, nice one mate,works like a charm :D
[HTC One X] colobos:
No problem its been around a while but is now stable and working great
[HTC One X] colwal:
We have a new version out this weekend hopefully, so be sure to check our forums and twitter as this will be the last beta version to go out before it goes into the Google Play store.
[HTC One X] colobos:
You are one of the devs? I must say very nice app would definitely be willing to pay for it
[HTC One X] colwal:
No I work for TVCatchup, our developers are Gzero who are working with us on the apps.
[HTC One X] scott07932:
Just tried the app works like a dream thanks for highlighting it, just need sky go to work now
[HTC One X] Camel Chops:
This is an excellent app. I have used the website in the past but the app is much better. Works perfectly on the one x. How are the guys over at tv catchup able to achieve what sky seem incapable of doing with sky go?
[HTC One X] ghost-5:
Excellent app. The adverts are annoying but can't complain for a freebie
[HTC One X] Waqas:
Any way to make this work outside UK. I downloaded and installed but its not registering. I really miss my BBC1
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] duphuocvt:
When there kernel 3.08 for Neo ?

can extract from Xperia S Rom FTF and Rom Xperia S does not ?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] mpiekp:
Go away and learn what a kernel is........

Sorry that was a bit harsh, but changing kernels is a bit like walking into modor....

Not as simple as just extracting
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] deadtorights:
Hi,

i have active sync for hotmail on my phone but when ever i get an email, it does not show as html email. I have to scroll down and select "load more details".

Is there a way to always show html email?

Thanks!
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Accessories] JabbaHut:
I've tried using my earphones with music controls ('next track', 'play/pause' and 'previous track') with my Samsung Galaxy Ace and they do not work correctly.

The 'previous track' button doesn't work, and the other two buttons both do the same thing (act as play/pause).

I've tried making an Android app to gain more information about what's going on. Turns out the 'previous track' button press goes completely undetected and the other two buttons both have the same keycode (79), which according to the developer docs is 'play_break' (basically pause).

I can only assume it's either a hardware problem, or a problem with the OS. I've tried a couple of different ROMs and they both suffer from the same problem

I'm wondering if anyone knows of a headset which works correctly? Thanks
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Accessories] jasndream:
I think there is no app where the previous track button is supported since there are only few earphones with that control..
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Accessories] Phate00:
use power mp3 or winamp. samsung default earphone works with them very well
[HTC Sensation] anthonyly:
Just wondering if theres any other kernals than faux's, which hasn't been updated in a while.
[HTC Sensation] sshede:
Does it matter if it's been updated or not? I believe performance and reliability are much more important than updates. If there's no need to improve...
[HTC Sensation] diperakui:
See masta padawan OP http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=27723984
[HTC Sensation] Deathsongx3:
You could try out Bricked Kernel for CM9
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] ladle3000:
So with stock Rom apps all have to stay on internal sd?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] aznmode:
It looks like it, even game data. Atleast thats how it is with the international version and theres no move to sd option in the setting. I dont see why it would be different for US version. The only other option I can think of is when theres root you can use GL to SD so you can move large game data to micro sd and leave the apps in internal. This is a better solution if you have large game data.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] ladle3000:
Makes it tough to plug and play a preexisting sd card since apps are looking for saved data in the usual sd location.

Like you said, I'm sure once we custom roms things will be different
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jamcar:
Is there a way after installing a ROM to wipe the system app data?
[Motorola Droid X2] Heonzo100:
Hi my Dx2's wifi seems to zone off every 5-10 minutes, how do you fix this?
[Motorola Droid X2] Triscuit:
Make sure in your wifi settings its set to stay on, I had that issue and it was set to disconnect every time I turned my screen off
[General Questions and Answers] S. Prime:
I am on HBOOT 1.11.011 Radio 3822.10.00.07_M With LeeDrod HC Rom

I did the wipe data/factory reset then wipe Dalvic Cache and installed both the ICS Lisbon Rom for the HTC Flyer and the remove WiFi patch on rebooting I get the HTC splash Screen and then a dark screen and have been waiting over 10 minutes, I can boot into recovery, so I repeated the process and get the same thing. Am I missing something or do I need to wait longer?
[myTouch 4G General] bthurber:
Why is the chrome browser so awful on our device under ICS? Gnexus reviews seem to rave about chrome on that device?
[myTouch 4G General] invasion2:
Don't know what you mean. It works flawlessly for me.
[myTouch 4G General] tristan6100:
Yeah I find its horrible. It's laggy and buggy as ****
[myTouch 4G General] estallings15:
Change ROMs. It works well on DianXin ICS. I know that for sure.
[myTouch 4G General] Launchpad McQuack:
I have had no issue with chrome on any of the ics roms, and like it better than any of the mobile browsers. Maybe a different kennel would help.

Tapatalking from my v.2 Beaten Dark Unicorn Glacier
[myTouch 4G General] darjama:
I found that increasing my auto memory manager settings to something more aggressive helped chrome behave better.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] A.VOID:
Anyone else seeing google Voice giving the failed forward message when selected as the voice mail provider?

I believe I have it working through manual entry, but it still shows carrier voice mail as my selection from the dialer settings menu.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] entropism:
Happened to me too. Not fun
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] mobilehavoc:
Ignore that as long as you have the forwarding setup you should be fine.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] neverends:
SOLUTION

try this

Activate Google Voice VM and set up forwarding

AT&T Cingular, T-Mobile, GSM network: DIAL *004*xxx-xxx-xxxx#

Deactivation Code

AT&T Cingular, T-Mobile, GSM network: ##004#
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] naturefreak85:
Yea, it errors out, just do the call forwarding option. It's something to do with Touchwiz from what I can tell, the issue didn't happen on my GSII with CM9 but did with TW
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] entropism:
Actually, I found a workaround I had to use with the Infuse...

Yes, you have to do the call forwarding code again: *004*[Google Voice Number]#

Then in your dialer settings, select Google Voice as your voicemail service. It will give you an option box popup which asks you to hit cancel or OK. Just hit the home button to leave the menu. When you go back in, Google Voice is selected, your Google Voice # is your voicemail number, and everything is set up properly.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] A.VOID:
That worked, thanks!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] naturefreak85:
FYI, I did this yesterday, and this morning it shows Google Voice as my Voicemail provider.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] kuthedude:
Ok, I swear I am not going crazy.

It seems like every phone call I have, I hear the other end hit their face w/ the phone to make the beep sound like they hit a number. There is no way every single person I talk to is doing this. I have checked my phone, and the proximity sensor works fine, and my keyboard isn't even pulled up....so it can't be me can it? I'm using viper rom.

Does every person I call have fat faces? I mean, I guess it could be that...but for EVERY phone call to have that sound is just kinda weird. Or...I could just be going crazy.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] ckoadiyn:
Deff going crazy or everyone just hitting the phone w their face