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[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] chisledice:
HAHA... touche`!

Another annoyance is the inability to change the volume of your ringtone and notifications at the same time. I'm sure there is an app or mod out there to fix this, I just need to find it.

Thankfully in CM9, no problems with this as we still get the check box.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] auronx62:
Anyone having issues with lag while playing games? I'm playing fruit Nina and I have noticeable lag...as well as samurai vs zombies. Also when I use advanced task killer... it would take like 5-10 seconds to kill the apps. I hit kill apps and it would be stuck at the screen for aforementioned time and then close apps... weird for a phone with this much horsepower...
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] eyecon82:
lol..i wasn't complaining ...i know i could switch that ring tone

but really...WTF where they thinking to keeping that as the standard ringtone? lol
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] a454nova:
Shouldn't use a task killer. It has a tasker already and can cause battery waste. Back button kills the apps, home keeps them running. Unless the app has the option to exit.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] truckfreak69:
I actually bought a One X initially because I liked the build quality more. But one day of sense, and the IMHO yellowish whites, and washed out blacks of the screens didn't feel like an upgrade to me. The screen, despite all of it's praise, reminded me of my original droid after having an iPhone, and a Galaxy Nexus (only had it a week, the battery life infuriated me on the Verizon version, so I went to ATT). Also, Sense absolutely infuriated me, and is even uglier than touch wiz if that's possible. (I knew I was going to root either of the phones, but it appeared the GS3 was going to have more developer support). The phone has really grown on me, I actually find it to be very classy and sleek looking... something about the one X despite feeling much better in the hand, still didn't feel contemporary (I think it was the glass not being flush with the plastic honestly). I do enjoy the ergonomics of the GS3, although I believe the home button is too low, and the phone should have more weight at the bottom like the Galaxy nexus to better balance in your hand, since the home button arrangement being what it is, causes you to have most of the screen outside of your hand. This is why I believe google's stock onscreen buttons are genius. Not only do they put the keyboard in a more ergonomic position (near the middle of the phone as opposed to the bottom which is a real hassle with this phone because it constantly feels like it's slipping out of your hand) but they are also easier to reach, and much quicker to press than physical buttons. I don't understand why the OEM's are so averse to them, as they reduce production cost of the phones.

I have sense installed AOKP on mine, and am in love. It is nearly as nice as the GNex was with Jellybean, and hopefully will be on par (better because of the battery life and screen and battery) when we have an official CM10 release. My new case is waiting on the stoop at home according to Amazon, so I'm hoping that will remedy the slip n' slide feeling in my hand.

I wanted to love the One X because plasticy phones to me are irritating, especially at this price point. But alas, despite all of the blogs claiming how nice the one X screen was, the LED bleeding, yellowish whites, and washed out blacks drove me crazy. I'll take a blue hint and perfect blacks over that any day. Ironically though, the pentile is more noticeable to me on the GS3 than the GNex. But the GNex had some color reproduction issues.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] OnceAMatrixMan:
Nor does Verizon apparently
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Baldilocks:
There are quite a few games that lag terribly on my AT&T version that play super smooth on my International version. My guess is that they haven't been optimized yet.

I have a major problem with Fruit Ninja and Siege Hero.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] knights665:
Theyr not on my Verizon s3
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] jcffrcy:
I'm a fan of TouchWiz, but then again this is my first Android device so...
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] pavvy:
In the (admittedly short) amount of time I spent playing with a One X in an AT&T store, I also didn't understand why the screen is so highly rated. It looked "nice," but not necessarily amazing or super-impressive. It certainly didn't "wow" the way SAMOLED screens do; although I know not everyone likes that SAMOLED "pop" (they complain of over-saturation). I guess I'm just partial to SAMOLED screens, enough so that I can happily live with PenTile on them. (Do you think the PenTile is more noticeable on the GS3 than the GNex because the GS3's screen is slightly bigger, with the same resolution -- i.e., slightly lower pixel density?)

I also agree with you on other points, btw, such as the ugliness of Sense, and the home button on the GSIII feeling like it's placed a little too low... (I don't actually own the phone, but I've played with it a lot.)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] danipoak:
Once CM9/10 it's released give it a try. Then you won't be a fan of touch wiz.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Baldilocks:
Meh, stock Android is still pretty ugly -- as far as Icons and visuals go. At least Samsung spruced up the icons a little bit. While I agree Touchwiz adds a lot of bloat, it's still better looking than vanilla Android. (I prefer Nova Launcher myself.)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] gbzbar:
That's a matter of opinion. I have been an avid CM7/9 user and tester, and even helped diagnose and correct some issues along with the devs of CM9 on the Sensation. I have used nothing but CM for the last year and a half... until I got my GS3. I put CM9 on the GS3 and tried it out for a couple of days when I first got it, but then I moved back to TouchWiz (possibly permanently). Touchwiz is, without a doubt, the most complete, smooth, user-friendly and customizable ROM I've ever seen loaded on a device by a manufacturer.

I personally prefer it to CM9, and when CM10 comes out I'll try it out and make another objective decision based on what I like better.

But that's the beauty of Android... it allows for personal choice. :)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] bmoreboy02:
Go to an at&t store they have 8 different cases. I got this casemate
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] washjayb:
Thanks. Ill give it shot. I called 4 sprint stores and maybe 5 t mobile- no dice.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] bmoreboy02:
No problem....that rubber adds a nice grip...if that have the visor screen guard man GET IT!!!! lol
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] BubZX:
Why do u need a screen guard. Aren't the screens gorilla glass like th og epic and the E4GT?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] bmoreboy02:
Im not sure but i know my cousin had his e4gt in his pocket with his keys and the screen got scratched.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] nicholaaaas:
that's normal

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disable double tap home to start svoice
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] shane6374:
You can change that in the power savings menu.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] jluster:
Not stock :). Stock Touchwiz. Where Samsung got the idea that we don't want pictures like in stock is alien to me. Maybe to make it look more "Apple" or something, but it bothers me something fierce.

Has anyone tried using the stock AOSP SMS/MMS.apk?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] smark72:
What?!?! Are you sure? That sucks. I use that feature constantly on my epic touch. Wonder if this can be added to a custom rom.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] kayakyakr:
This is probably the sprint connection optimizer: it background scans for better connections as you move along. I've got mine turned on because I want it to pick up any LTE that it runs across, but I also like the convenience of walking in my door and being on wireless already.

Turn the optimizer off and this problem will go away.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] kegacide:
This is my first touchwiz experience and its a mixed bag...

Either the widgets are dumb, or I'm dumb, but for example in the S memo widget, if you go in from the widget to the app and make a memo, next time you go in from the widget it takes you to that new memo, but from there there is no way back to the main screen of the app, the back button takes you home and the back button in the top corner takes you to homescreen as well...

This is an issue from the music widget also, can't get to the music home screen of the app from widget access, wtf?

It's probably my own stupidity, but I've tried everything...

Anyway the dialer screen after a phone call bringing up that contract screen is annoying

Regardless I love this phone
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] jameswerk:
I love the phone but my top 3 annoyances are:

1. Home button hard to get used to even once I made it faster by deactivating S Voice double tap

2. Home Screen indicator dots take up a lot of screen real estate with TouchWiz

3. Capacitive buttons flashing every time I touch the screen is distracting
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] ReggieTee:
Actually that's a plus...
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Bliger241:
I hate the touchwiz folder icons I actually like touchwiz but I can't look at their folder icons. I like the stock android folder so much better
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] ubigred:
You guys should try Go Launcher Ex... Works VERY well on the Epic Touch. Has many themes including ICS.

Trust me guys you will LOVE IT!!!

Sent from my EPIC TOUCH!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] karate134:
There's a setting somewhere (I forgot where) that automatically turns on 4g and wifi depending on your location to help save battery, etc.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] droidsrus:
The home button does take some getting used to. But i dont hate it. One thing that pisses me the hell off is that for some odd reason. My wifi doesnt auto connect when im within the range again after leaving. I have to go to wifi settings and re enter my password. Its so annoying. This never happened on any of my devices. They usually autoconnect
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] BBlunts456:
Unless I overlooked the setting. I used it on my Epic too. The automatic brightness isn't that bad, I still wished I had the option tho.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] xtrezpasor:
My complaint is I cannot find where the default alarm sound is located.

Sent from my SPH-L710
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] mrvirginia:
once CM10 is more stable, i'll move to that until Samsung/carriers are able to push a 4.1 TouchWiz version to our devices IF i still own the S3 by that time. if you've played with JellyBean on a GNex, you know it's extremely smooooooth.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] OnceAMatrixMan:
Overall I am loving the phone, but...

- hated the keyboard of course. Switched to SwiftKey.

- hate the screen real estate that the homepage indicator take up in TW. Eventually will go back to Apex if only for this reason.

- hate that wifi switch in the nodifications pull down. I keep turning on wifi and sine there is no icon in the header for wifi I don't know it's on and not connected.

- everything runs smooth except XDA. If there are too many screen shots or graphics it slows toa crawl and or crashes. Happened a few times when posting too.

- how about a setting to hide the GPS notification when it's not on?

But loving 4G. Loving battery life. Loving the speed...
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] sageDieu:
Uh... nova launcher, meaning the launcher that is visually based 100% on stock ICS?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Nopi45:
May have been said already but mine keeps taking screen shots in my pick when I get a call or text.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] .Arkham:
The wifi bars are right there where your data mode/status would be.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] dvize:
Blasphemy, you're feeding the corporate monster! But in reality you're right, it was bloated, but i liked the facial recognition in photos with seamless integration to facebook. But after using CM10, I can't go back. It's like tasting the difference between draft and canned beer. It gets the job done, but its just so much cleaner and you don't taste the aluminum.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] OnceAMatrixMan:
Not if I am not connected...
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Bagbug:
This has to be the dumbest hatred list of all time. Get a life (and another phone).

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We all can btw, just use the separate contact icon instead of the phone icon.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] fwdkiller:
Missing app monitor , social hub, and volume too low .I'm glad I still own my galaxy note and skyrocket .there so many apps missing.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] .Arkham:
Ah, I see what you mean. So you're looking for a wifi-icon-with-an-X-through it if wifi's on but not connected? If so, that's a great idea.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] KentuckyHouse:
Volume too low??? There's obviously something wrong with yours. Seriously. That's the reason I'm keeping the GSIII over my One X is for the superior and loud volume.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Baldilocks:
Uhhh, it sure is, but uhhhh, it still uses the Samsung/Touchwiz based icons instead of the drab ICS icons.

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Not being in the notification area is a pretty good sign that it's not on or connected though...... lol.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] fwdkiller:
Its loud enough but it wasnt as i expected to be . The headset i put on i can hear my self breathing through the headset.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] mt3g:
My volume is loud as hell, almost too loud, but we went fishing and opted for my phone cause of it's clarity and volume over a few phones.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] sageDieu:
you can install any icon packs made go/adw launcher.

this is the "flat." icon pack, it can be found in the play store. I am stock, unrooted.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Kchitown1977:
Try app I believe it's called volume +
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] potentdro:
Minor annoyance I just realize is that the volume rocker and power button are directly across from one another so I tend to press both buttons at the same time when ever i manually turn off the screen through the power button.

Just gotta get use to it i guess.

Coming from the HTC G2, the S3 looks huge in comparison so I gotta hold it differently. Haha
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] fwdkiller:
Yeah me too lol
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] androidaddict23:
Agreed
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] rexxman:
What's up with everyone? TW sucks, Sense sucks, yadda yadda yadda.

I've spent over a year with TBolt/Sense and now about ten days with his wickedly fast and beautiful SGIII/TW.

Different? Of course. Difficult to deal with? NO!

For me, it's been a very smooth transistion from one to the other.

It's been a joyful journey.

SGIII FTW. :cool:
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] ThC23:
Lol, stop breathing so loud then. Seriously, this phone is louder than my S2 and I have 3 different headsets that I have no problem with. I don't even turn volume all the way up when I have the headsets.

Powered by the SGSIII
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] mikeschevelle:
I have to say the only thing for me is I do not feel it takes good pics in low light, which it should for being what it is.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tony yayo:
I only have 2. First, I can't find a way to restore my sms backup. Thought that would have been brought up somewhere but can't figure out why I can't find it in search. Second, for some reason, after I take a pic, I'll go to it, and the brightness will automatically drop a bit making the pictures look darker. Seems some pics have plenty of light plus the flash and still seem dark anyway. Weird. I tell ya though, this camera, in daylight pics, is freaking fantastic! Colors just pop. Even though my Sensation had an 8mp camera as well, it seems these pics are sooo much clearer and sharper, even when I zoom in.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] androidaddict23:
My annoyances are a hard home Key versus soft,heat temperatures,archaic fille icon system. Just to note the Motorola hd for att has the on screen keys Samsung what the duck.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] bamaredwingsfan:
Im sure its been listed, but not being able to access the camera while in call sucks for me:(
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] jxs1984:
some of my photos that were rotated in gallery didn't seem to be rotated when sending through mms. anyone have this issue?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] domtru:
Punctuations need to be at the end of a sentence not after a space !!!!! See ????
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] rey_1178:
Only annoyance I have is with the popping sound Everytime I play music. doesn't matter what player I use. hoping for an update soon that resolves the issue.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] auronx62:
Anyone experiencing the brightness the screen dimming randomly? I'm not moving from a well lit place to another. But certain times it just dims and lights. I do have it as auto brightness... anyone experiencing that problem?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] chilipalm:
The stock email widget won't update automatically like it does for the Galaxy S II. You have to update it manually. This widget is pretty useless.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] spyker73:
Annoying tring music just before the ring tone while making a call

I don't like the 2 or 3 second tring tone just before the actual ring tone while dialing out a call.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] hitekdroid:
Home button wakes up screen in my pocket
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] p_synthesis:
Go to call settings, call alert, call status tones and deselect call connect tone and call end tone.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] s60convert:
I too wish there was a way to disable this feature.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] eyecon82:
im having this too...when some of my mms's rotate the picture when it isn't supposed to be rotated
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] hayabusa1300cc:
Camera setting never stick

Like shortcuts arrangement, auto contrast and anti shake
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] RaymondPJR:
I haven't played around with this yet although I did look into the camera settings and see night mode is still there from the Vibrant days. Are you saying using that setting the pictures are bad? In what way, blurry...dark?

I have a few more annoyances although two may be because of my own error. I set my phone on mute in the pull-down shade and it doesn't mute all sounds! Maybe there is a setting I'm missing somewhere. I don't like how the screen background is dark when you open the phone then slowly brightens. Also the phone is too large for me to use with one hand like I could with my Vibrant. I can't grip my fingers around it and work the screen with my thumb. Especially can't reach the home button. To get around this last one, I'm buying a Flygrip. If anyone can help with the first two, please chime in.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] BubZX:
not getting the sound thru my car stereo like I did with my epic. The epic blows this thing out of the water as far as sound thru the head phone jack into auxiliary goes.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] nlanter95:
I can't change my volume on the lockscreen. Also, something in my credentials is making me have a medium to high security lock on my phone. I dont feel like clearing them every time i want change my lock.

Edit: Just discovered that having a VPN causes the credentials to require a lock :p
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Jaskwith:
The music player this came with blows ass....there is no artist/songs/album sorting and I searched for an artist but now I can't figure out how to get back to my whole library.... lol thing is a joke.... play music ftw
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] auronx62:
Anyone seeing that their screen is dimming and lighting up randomly?? Sometimes it gets very bright sometimes it doesn't. It's set on automatic brightness but I'm not moving from a dark spot to a bright spot. Anyone have some insight on this? Thanks.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] xxdesire5044XXX:
if you have power saving enabled it will do that
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] :
unable to change notification icons with metamorph.

I can't find the 3 key reboot into stock recovery.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] erm1001:
You can turn the lights off in settings
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] auronx62:
Actually my power saving mode was off at the time and I still encountered that problem... I will double check and spend a day without power saving mode. Maybe I'm seeing things.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] VeNoM vZ:
i get the same thing, it think that the light sensor its just really sensitive.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] rschauby:
Even with power saving disabled, auto tone off, and automatic brightness disabled, my screen still flickers and adjusts brightness. It's very annoying.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] VeNoM vZ:
very weird mine doesnt do that. maybe faulty phone?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] lviv73:
Man, my Sprint GS3 doesnt seem that much better than GS2 Epic Touch, qudrant scores only little higher in some areas like fps and to me GS2 screen looks better but it needed few months to be broken in, because at first my GS2 screen was yellowish and now its perfect white,now my GS3 is yellowish-hopefully that will change in time.

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Mine does too on some apps,it can be disabled in app settings menu-most of the time.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] alaman68:
i actually love everything about the phone, the thing kills my old device. what i hate is how quickly the general section moves and bumps the threads that are completely worthless, see "locked bootloader" and every other VZW locked bootloader thread along with "post a picture of yourself".

1. if you hate the locked bootloader on VZW, switch carriers or stop whining about it. you knew what you were getting in to.

2. i don't want to know what you look like. there is no good picture of you unless you are in playboy, in which case, you won't be posting here so f%^&ing stop!!!

General sections are generally good, stop spamming it with garbage.

and we're off...

great story bro!!! tell your girlfriend instead, my bad, you probably don't have one.

ummmmm.... yeah wifi, or pandora or slacker radio. or get sprint with unlimited data. but who cares anyway since these are all the same forum.

waiting for my next
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] RaymondPJR:
What the heck are you talking about? Just go into settings and choose the ones you want to show.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] cent_0_o:
I really just have one issue that probably can't fix. The wake/sleep button and volume buttons are way to easy to press. Very annoying but not anything I can't get used to. This is my first android phone and I love it so far.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] gunnyman:
I want my touch tones. That is all.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] EndlessDissent:
You mean water droplets aren't a good substitute? :P

Yeah, I hated that about TW. Glad I flashed CM10.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] gunnyman:
the droplets are OK I guess, but when accessing voicemail and using the speaker phone or any menu system for that matter, the BEEP sound is annoying as hell.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] det0n8r:
Does it happen when switching to and from the browser? The browser has it's own brightness settings.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Sidneymac:
When I try setting a contact picture the same one keeps coming up after I go through the process of cropping and saving the pic of a different person.