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[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] itninja:
The T-Mob version should be roughly the same as the ATT version. Unless the radio for the 42 MBps data is significantly more costly than whatever radio ATT uses, I don't see where the difference should be.

Even so, if I had $700, I'd be buying one outright today. My Vibrant would become a dev/backup device with no looking back.

Although I want one VERY badly, I am kinda glad that I am going to have to wait a bit more before I can afford it. This way I can monitor the S III topic here and see if there are any lurking issues before I buy.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Jaballa12:
I called customer care and they gave me a full months credit to get and use the savings to buy my phone:)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Maverick777:
I would talk to rententions if you want to see if you can get a better deal. Depending on how long you've been with them, how long you've been out of contract, etc, they may be able to get you a better deal. The key is to be nice to them.

I already posted in the stickied thread, but I'll repost here:

Well, T-mobile continues to amaze me in a good way. Of course I was disappointed as everyone else with T-mobile's pricing, so I thought I'd give retention a call and see if they could do something.

I was really nice about it. I just said I'm looking to upgrade my phone from a Vibrant (I paid full price on the Vibrant, so I haven't been on contract for a long time). I've waited a long time to upgrade and I'm disappointed with the pricing. That's it. I wasn't rude or anything, just laid it out there.

The rep apologized for my disappointment and then she offered the following with no hesitation:

1. $200 credit to offset the cost of the phone. The credit has been applied to my account.

2. She said she could give me 500 more minutes on my plan AND reduce my monthly bill by $15.

3. She said I could pick it up in any store for $279.99 or call back on the 27th when they get them in their system at Customer Care.

4. I had overage on my bill for the first time. $100 worth. She took care of that too!

Bottom line, she gave me the phone for $79.99, saved me money on my monthly bill, AND wiped off overage.

Can't wait to get my S III once it's readily available. I won't mind the wait.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Xenoism:
I'm certainly going to have to do this :) Thanks for the tip!

To be clear, which number did you call exactly though? haha
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Maverick777:
611. Asked for retentions when I got someone on the line.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Xenoism:
Much appreciated my friend ^^
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] lostincyberspace:
Hi!

I have a question to ask you, what type of plan are you on and is T-Mobile reducing your plan by $15.00 a month by giving you a $15.00 a month credit for two years, for example? Thanks! :)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] FRuiTBoOT:
What I think everyone fails to realize is T-Mobile has the best rates out of all carriers and you still end up saving even with the extra your spending on the device. T-Mobile takes that into account when pricing devices. So overall its not really all bad. Just seems like it when your dropping all that money up front.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] neoslink1:
for those of you who did call retentions, did you do so before or after ordering the phone? I ordered the 32gb pebble blue online, and after taxes and fees and whatnot, it came out to a little under 450... :( that seems quite high to me fore some reason.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] FRuiTBoOT:
Doesn't sound high for 32gb they start at 379 before taxes, shipping and upgrade/activison fees.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] neoslink1:
Think they could still waive my activation if I was an angel to them? I'm just a student, lol. 450 stings a bit, but its looking like it'll definitely be worth it.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] jslim38:
That's the same amount you would pay at amazon and on the go solutions but you get a bonus when buying from on the go solutions it will come rooted if I was to spend $700 on a phone that would be the choice I would make the international version are way better
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mythus:
for some reason, I was given a 6 months full upgrade without any notification. Would really love to get this but, the price on this is insane. Anyone walking into a target, bestbuy or any local chain will see 4 galaxy s3. who in their right mind would pick the tmobile at 90$ more? I was told by a support rep that their computer currently doesn't reflect the real value, so this is probably some release day insanity. they will probably automatically credit the difference, or at least i would hope so.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] lensgrabber:
Anyone know how much the 32gb off contract is? I can't get a straight answer from anyone at T-Mobile.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] avataranjie:
How did you do it? Called in and she said there's nothing she can do.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Jaballa12:
I called through 611 also when you are able to say something such as billing and account info just say "retentions". I guess you can try again if they don't want to give you anything
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] magus57:
So true. People are too concerned about up-front price without realizing how much they're saving over the two years, and often switch carriers because they prefer instant gratification over long-term savings...which is one of the worst reasons to switch.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Voltage Spike:
So because the plans are good, we should let T-Mobile rip us off in other, subtler ways?

The reality is that the biggest problem is that the phone is effectively the same across all carriers, but T-Mobile has a 15% premium compared to the other options. TCO is fine, but it doesn't necessarily mean that we can't get the same premium price for the phone as everyone else in addition to the great T-Mobile plans.

(It looks really bad at 58% more expensive than the somewhat similar Galaxy Nexus.)

If the reasoning is that the "no commitment" pricing on other carriers is a subsidized price, then I feel T-Mobile should just state that. Right now, it simply looks bad.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] magus57:
I'm not saying it's justified, but it seems like the people complaining about the phone price are forgetting how much less per month they're paying and that they might switch just because of an up-front price. When you think about it, how can you not afford an higher up-front price but a higher monthly price is fine? Sounds like bad money management to me.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] tamasrepus:
The 32 GB Galaxy S III was listed earlier this week (gone now) on T-Mobile's Website for $679.

---------- Post added at 07:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:34 PM ----------

That almost makes sense, except that the Galaxy S III still costs $80 more off-contract compared to AT&T ($629 vs $550), so you're saving less than you think.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] magus57:
Unless you intend on using the AT&T version on 2G on some prepaid service, I'd don't see how that's relevant, since I'm unaware of AT&T offering any unsubsidized plans (meaning that $80 is made up in only a few monthly payments).
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] lferrin:
Go to Costco. Got it for 249.00. Comes with two cases a car charger and two screen protectors. Oh and no rebate : )
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] avataranjie:
16 or 32gb?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] stonew5082:
mine was 230 in store for 16 gig model. Why is everyone saying its $80 more? And I didn't have any activation fees or anything...
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Voltage Spike:
Because it is supposed to be $280 (granted, with a $50 mail-in rebate) vs. the $200 at other carriers. You may have gotten away for $230 without the rebate as a Value customer, for a total price of $630 after the EIP ... again, compared to $550 with everyone else.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] lferrin:
16 gig. Still good with everything that comes with it
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] floppydiskz:
Retentions department was awesome. After buying the phone at Costco for around $250+ tax, they lowered my monthly bill by $10, let me retain my Original $20 unlimited data plan from the G1, wiped out next month's bill AND threw in an additional $10 off a month for 24 months.

I was quite pleased with my experience and I too was very polite and non threatening.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cashyftw:
Mines was 198 :)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] avataranjie:
Did they do all of that for renewing your contract?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] dipulm2005:
I m not able to select the manual network! I m having ATT 2.3.6 (UCLB3) GB by jscott... Earlier I had froyo but it had d same problem too! Can anyone help me out? How do I get rid of this... I m from india, & using tata docomo network!
[Samsung Infuse 4G] jscott30:
Assuming that your phone is setup to work on your network, you'll need to look into how to add your CSC and APN settings. This is AT&T firmware, and defaults to the AT&T CSC and APN settings.

Edit : For anyone else with this issue, see further along in this thread. qkster has a link to a phone.apk that works on other bands and solves this issue.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Clark Joseph Kent:
Thx buddy for taking time to address....

Sent from my SGH-I717, Black Star.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] dipulm2005:
Yes it is unlocked & works on my docomo carrier! The problem I face is while roaming, in my docomo network there is less signal so thats y it gets changed to any other network in roaming! And due to this it is charged alot!
[Samsung Infuse 4G] dipulm2005:
Can anyone else who is not on att network is facing same prob? I think if I put any custom rom than I wont find any prob! Wat say experts?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Clark Joseph Kent:
Hard to say...on att

Sent from the Black Star`d ICS GNote.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] rkkaranrk:
Flash a custom rom and check some of them allow u to search network manually.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] dipulm2005:
Hey if u have used any, can u tell me any stable custom rom?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] dipulm2005:
DONE! got it working!

hello every1,

i have made it finally working!

just updated the phone.apk file from recovery mode CWM given by "crt60" in the LEGEND-3 post...

qkster phone.apk with network selection zip file - get it from post #2

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1661666

THANKS qkster & crt60! :good:
[Samsung Infuse 4G] qkster:
Glad it worked for you.

You can also find it here by itself.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1437548&page=11
[Xperia Arc General] shantusingh:
I loved my Arc S... Gave it to the shop i bought the beast Htc One X Quadcore from and paid the remaining extra. And oh my god no words... so if i start i might not stop telling all about it... so no disrespect my Arc S was awesome too.. and Htc One X is Miles Better!

So just wanted to share and say bye bye Arc S!

Others also please share stuff... say bye bye to your Arc S, if have bought a new one now ~!

Cheers!!
[Xperia Arc General] OverLo4d:
bad timing for buying the one x:(

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/hardware-fault-found-in-the-htc-one-x-causes-bad-signal/
[Xperia Arc General] shantusingh:
No its an awesome timing, I prepared myself asking htc's customer service before even buying one x few days back, they admitted n said all this problems were in april and old imported date handsets, and all have been taken back.. and the issues are fixed in the new ones being imported. I purchased the may imported handset, no wi-fi issues not even one point dropped sitting little far in other room and in low battery aswell, no banding problems, no flickering screen, no signal drops, nothing!;) . Played all the apps in it... it works BooOoOomMMmm!!
[Xperia Arc General] xtacy!:
I'm envious. I like the One X design after the arc's. And I'd definitely take it over the Samsung Galaxy S III.

Could never get used to their ugly TouchWiz interface.

Swyped from my SE Xperia arc (LT15i) using Tapatalk 2
[Xperia Arc General] Galileo:
lol, my arc was my first android smartphone im 16, and the only cellphones i could ever get where old bb, i hated them so much, so i love my arc, i would probably only change it for an s3, i mean i like touchwiz, and if i dont theres replacements, or cm9 rom, guys i still dont get it, if you can run ps1, store games, and apps at 100 percent with a singlecore 1ghz processor why do you need aquad core 1.4? just asking, wouldnt it be wiser to get a compuuter for that price?
[Xperia Arc General] Silesh.Nair:
True. Don't know why anyone would need a quadcore phone. The single core intel processor beats most of the dual/quad core phones. Too bad that's its bootloader is locked.
[Xperia Arc General] xtacy!:
@Galileo,

It's just a sign how far technology and miniaturisation has come. Prices have dropped drastically.

A few years back, this would have unimaginable. A few years back, the Samsung Jet was being hailed as the fastest phone whizzing away at 800MHz. It's laughable now.

Plus, it's all that computing power in the palm of your hands. Computers are not able to compete in terms of portability offered by a phone. (I'm not talking about productivity, just portability). It's small enough to slip into your pocket.

From here on, developers are going to optimise their apps to utilise the multi-core CPU. A few years down the line, I'm pretty sure everyone will have moved to dual-core and beyond.

@finch.****break,

Intel core? For our arcs? LOL! What have you been smoking mate?

Or were you talking about that XOLO phone? :confused:

Swyped from my SE Xperia arc (LT15i) using Tapatalk 2
[Xperia Arc General] Overdose1986:
6 more months(maybe less) and your One X will be obsolete, will be miles behind the newest smartphone
[Xperia Arc General] shantusingh:
If u have an arc or arc s then where is your phone now? I believe no where in the list lol
[Xperia Arc General] pveyes:
@overdose: and your comment just as right as your avatar :p
[Xperia Arc General] shantusingh:
No it won't be wiser for many kid!
[Xperia Arc General] shantusingh:
Lol
[Xperia Arc General] Galileo:
if anything they should look for a way to increase ram, we have quad core 1.5ghz processors but only 1g ram?, imagine what we could do with 2gb ram or so.
[Xperia Arc General] Silesh.Nair:
What are you lolling about? :confused:

Read this before you start lolling again, LOL.
[Xperia Arc General] shantusingh:
lol
[Xperia Arc General] Silesh.Nair:
Hell ya. Just found out what you are lolling abt, Banta Singh. Didn't take a look at your username till now. ROFL.
[Xperia Arc General] shantusingh:
finch.****break <<< lol
[Xperia Arc General] cokey77:
you just know the way to go would be to make a handset you could make yourself or have custom made, just like a pc upgradable components like ram, cpu ,graphics card screen,camera maybe different kinds of os like one for gaming one for business etc. but in reality you wont get that until way down the line if at all , just minor upgrades to sell more handsets and make more money, we can but dream.
[Xperia Arc General] pren22:
I have arc lt15i and love it.was looking to get xperia ion when it goes international if it goes ever,but i'm thinking to stay with my arc till some better sony phones come's out,every year they have newer phones.So i'll stick to arc for now.
[Xperia Arc General] trungonljne:
bye bye :d :fingers-crossed::good:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hkfan:
Hi,

How is the GPS performance of this device. Is it comparable with tomtom standalone GPS devices.

Thing is I broke my tomtom today and wondering if I really need to buy new one again or my s3 will do the job. GPS is on sale for next two days and my phone will come after 27th so I cannot wait for testing. SO I am relying on your advise.

My last phone Samsung Vibrant had ****ed up GPS so I do not really trust samsung for GPS.

And I do have Sygic license for offline maps.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sak500:
One of the fastest fixes i've seen after iphone 4. My LG O3D (sic) phone took about 3 mins to fix in open area and SIII takes 10 secs to lock inside my car without having data on.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matttye:
~3 seconds with wifi, GPS and all sensors on.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sxi200:
Flawless. Locks very quickly both indoors and out. Had the S1 and S2 but both were pretty crap compared. Both had a ship load of threads after release about poor GPS. Haven't seen many, if any for the S3.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] corrsea:
Beats any stand alone GPS device hands down- and I've had a few.

If you're a lover of Tom Tom they are about to release an android version.

My preference is Sygic though.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
Especially in cities you'll see huge improvement over other mobile phones or standalone devices since it uses GPS (USA) and GLONASS (Russia) at the same time, meaning it can calculate it's position based on roughly the double count of satellites.

Usually in cities you're hard-pressed to get the required 3-4 satellites for a fix and often drop to the minimum of 2 (or even loose the fix) while turning around corners. I have yet to see a single fix being dropped on the S3, it usually sees 5-6 satellites in cities and 16-17 in open country.

The only device I own that really could compete to the S3's GPS is a bluetooth Sirf3 GPS-receiver I used on my S1 which had the worst GPS I've ever used.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] CZ Eddie:
Those games that require you to install the app, and then they require you to download like 200-800MB more data over your wireless.

Is there any way to back up that 200-800MB additional data?

Titanium backup doesn't seem to do it.

So every time I flash a new ROM & restore my apps, I have to re-download that data all over again.

Any suggestions?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] lmftmf:
Majority of that saves to your SD card under android/data/[your app here]/
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ratimand:
Hey guys,

I just got the skyrocket for att and I'm having trouble booting into recovery with the Volume up+ Volume Down and Power button combo.

I looked around on here and this does not seem to be a common issue.

I managed to do it through adb (reboot recovery) but I was wondering if this is a normal thing/if there is a fix for it.

I already flashed the leaked ICS and rooted it but I want to be able to get into recovery in case I have to do it on the go.

Any help would be appropriated

Thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] lmftmf:
Power off the phone and then hold all three buttons until the Samsung logo comes up then release. Walaa recovery mode.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xcrazydx:
Release only the power button, stay holding the volume buttons
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ratimand:
Damn that does not make me feel very smart.

I was releasing all 3 at once.

Releasing just the power button worked the first time.

Thanks a lot.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] lmftmf:
That's what I usually do hmmmm
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xcrazydx:
Yup, that's how its done
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Jessical:
Don't feel bad. I screw that up every time too. So now I just go into CM9, press reboot, and then recovery since I'm so lazy, lol.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
can u put solved in ur title

this post is just a copy paste from another post i wrote to a n00b

read, read more, read the stickies, i read alot b4 i even attempted to flash, at least a few hundred posts and using the search button.

all problems and solutions have been posted, as u r a n00b all u have todo is invest time into reading alot of posts, because of ur post we all know u havent even bothered to read the stickies, espicially read the one w/n00b's in the title, thats y they r there. .

once u know what ur r doing and r stumped at a certain problem, believe me we can tell by how u post a question, post in the q&a forum
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mindmajick:
Again, I appreciate your intentions, but even "I" have to say "every thread!?".

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SGH-I727 using XDA premium, running cm9. Trouble searching? http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
r u saying i said "read every post", which i didnt, i said "alot".

either way good that he fiqured it out, the solition is in the stickies by the way
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mindmajick:
No. Your copy and pasted stuff.

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SGH-I727 using XDA premium, running cm9. Trouble searching? http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
It was my post that I copied and pasted from, use search and u will c
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Gerardinho:
Good news, after long waiting Samsung will finally start with the Android 4.0 updates for the Galaxy Tab 7.7 – 8.9 – 10.1.

The updates will start in July but the most updates are planned for August.

According to our insider the update will improve your battery and speed.

Samsung Canada posted a schedule also when we will see the first galaxy Tab updates.

Even they say in July / August.

Another good thing is, when we have the first Android 4.0 for the Galaxy Tab 7.7 we will start making our review about the Galaxy Tab 7.7

If you want to see our first Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 WIFI review please stay tuned.

That review is plannend to come online this month.

The next tablets will receive an Android 4.0 update.

GT-P6210 Galaxy Tab Plus 7.0 WIFI

GT-P6200 Galaxy Tab Plus 7.0 WIFI + 3G

GT-P6810 Galaxy Tab 7.7 WIFI

GT-P6800 Galaxy Tab 7.7 WIFI + 3G

GT-P7310 Galaxy Tab 8.9 WIFI

GT-P7300 Galaxy Tab 8.9 WIFI + 3G

GT-P7510 Galaxy Tab 10.1 WIFI

GT-P7500 Galaxy Tab 10.1 WIFI + 3G
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] burhanistan:
Yes, this has all been covered exhaustively in the other two threads about ICS for the 7.7. Can we not start another thread?
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] O_G:
Thread Closed​

We dont need multiple threads on the same subject​
[Nokia Lumia 900] slyronit:
Hey all,

I just got a Lumia 900 today. Great device. I was able to sync my favorite landmarks that I had accumulated over the years to my Windows Phone Nokia maps.

I can open the bookmarks on Nokia maps, but when I select navigate, it just shows a route in Nokia Maps. How can I do turn by turn navigation to my landmarks using Nokia drive?

It seems there is no link between Nokia drive and the bookmarks synced to Nokia maps. Without this, the bookmarks are almost useless.

Am I doing something wrong?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] neocryte:
Hi guys,

I am hoping someone may notice what's going on with my device... I am at a loss. Attaching all screenshots and dump file from BetterBatteryStats (may need to open in Wordpad for the spacing work).

To summarize, my battery drain is very inconsistent. Some days it lasts a long time, 2-3 hrs of screen time, can stay in standby for over 2 days. And then some days it drains very quickly, like right now - it drops by 3% every time I basically turn on the screen to check e-mail/messages. I think we can all agree that 4 hrs of standby and 15 mins of screen usage should not use 50% of the battery.

I have tried two different units (swapped thinking my battery was faulty), and the issue persists - so I think it has to be something related to my software setup. I am running the AT&T LTE stock phone, 1.85 firmware. I have tried doing the full factory reset (clearing all settings/apps/storage), and cycling the battery.

Some folks have mentioned that my drain seems to begin when I hit an area with low/no signal (I take the subway to work in the morning), and then persists - as if something is trying to sync/connect somewhere, but can't... so it keeps looping and draining the battery.

My autosync is only on for Gmail, Google calendar (not contacts), and Weather (every 2 hrs only). Phone is not overly hot, battery is at 86 degrees right now. My brightness is at 40%.

If someone has any ideas, please share - I am at a loss, I don't know what to do... but battery life has got to be better than this, at least in terms of consistency.

Thanks so much.